Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one's victimization from government dissemination absent a compelling state interest

QUESTION PRESENTED Petitioners Fox and Grey are public officials whose offices maintain records of the graphic details of sex crimes committed against Petitioner J.K., a minor crime victim. Despite Sixth Circuit precedent establishing constitutional protection for these records, the Ohio Supreme Court has ordered Petitioners Fox and Grey to release all of them to Respondent and to do so without redaction. The question presented is: Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one’s victimization from government dissemination absent a compelling state interest, a question as to which the courts of appeals are in conflict. ii RELATED CASES e §©State ex rel. Summers v. Fox, No. 2018-0959, Ohio Supreme Court. Judgment entered Dec. 10, 2020.