Cline v. SPECTRUM CARE ACADEMY, INC.

OPINION

NICKELL, Judge:

Brenda Cline and Melissa Whitaker, both individually and as representatives of the Estate of LaKeesha Cline, appeal from orders entered by the Adair Circuit Court sealing the court record in two consolidated cases. For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand for further proceedings and entry of an order consistent with this opinion.

This case results from the death of sixteen-year-old LaKeesha Cline after she fled from Spectrum Care Academy, Inc., a psychiatric residential treatment center for teenaged girls, and was struck and killed by two vehicles. The sole…