Attorney General Bob Ferguson said his office needed the records to learn whether the Catholic church used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests.
A Washington state judge said Friday that Attorney General Bob Ferguson is not entitled to enforce a subpoena seeking decades of records from the Seattle Archdiocese, despite his assertion that the records are needed to learn whether the Catholic church used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests.Judge Michael Scott sided with the archdiocese, which argued that under the state's law governing charitable trusts, Ferguson did not have authority to enforce the subpoena.
"Church officials said the records sought by the state were excessive and irrelevant — including every receipt going back to 1940, in an archdiocese with more than 170 pastoral locations and 72 schools.Some 23 states have conducted investigations of the Catholic church, and so far at least nine have issued reports detailing their findings. In some cases, those findings have gone far beyond what church officials had voluntarily disclosed.
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