People v. Doe

PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ

delivered the opinion of the court:

Karen Helfrich, a therapist and director of a housing corporation which provides treatment for mentally ill patients, appeals from an order denying her motion to quash a grand jury subpoena duces tecum. Helfrich maintains that the subpoena, which was issued pursuant to a “John Doe investigation” for homicide, violates the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 91½, par. 801 et seq.) (the Confidentiality Act), and other constitutional rights to privacy. On appeal, we consider the…