The following was reported on The Orlando Sentinel Wednesday January 29th 1997 Business Section B-1 and B-4

Man ordered to stop releasing Charter data.

Jose Proenza-Sanfiel wants to sell the patient information he says he found on a computer.

By Suzy Hagstrom and Susan Jacobson

OF THE SENTINEL STAFF

A state judge has ordered an Osceola County man and three Orlando television stations to stop releasing information about patients of Charter Hospital Orlando South.

Jose Proenza-Sanfiel, who said he found the information on a computer he bought, vowed Tuesday to defy the court order.

Proenza-Sanfiel, who said he used to work at the psychiatric hospital in Kissimmee, wants to be paid for the information. He said he would consider giving the records to Charter for $20,000, or to the federal government for a fee. The files, he said,

might help the government in an insurance-fraud lawsuit it has pending against Charter. Joe Krovisky, a spokesman for U.S. Justice Department, said the agency is aware of Proenza-Sanfiel's claims and is looking into them.

Stephen J. Calvacca, an Orlando lawyer representing the hospital was more forceful: "Is there something in my voice that tells you I want to be a victim of extortion?"

woman for the shop said it rarely gets computers in such good condition,

Please see CHARTER B-4

TV station invokes freedom of speech

charter from B-l

and no workers remember selling such an item There's some serious question in the mind of Charter Hospital as to the true circumstances under which this gentleman obtained these records," Calvacca said. Proenza-Sanfiel was not a direct employee of Charter, Calvacca said, but he might have worked there under a contract with an outside agency.

But Buss Kilgore, news director at WESH-Channel 2, said the station's reporter saw confidential medical information on the computer.

On Tuesday, WESH asked the judge to reverse his order because it violates freedom of for WFTV said the request today.

The Cuban-born Marine Corps veteran also made the news in 1993, when he went on a hunger strike to protest U.S. plans to lift sanctions against Vietnam.

"I'm not the kind of person you step on," Proenza-Sanfiel said. "If you step on me, I'll sting you back."

I was faberglasted when I saw this article. I wrote a letter right away to the reporter and the editor. Since while I was speaking with her I specifically asked that my name be kept confidential. Due to the fact, that we were dealing with psychiatric patients. Don’t get me wroong folk's. Even though most folk's are in need of minor Mental Tune-up's there was always the chance of the usual 10% that are truly mentally ill. Who knows what they would do if believed that I was releasing patient data about them.

Well as you can see she did not keep my name confidential.

Not only that but she also misquoted me by saying that I wanted to sell the information to Charter. In actuality the matter was simply put as a question of If...If....If....If.

Also should be noted that the so called Government investigator Joe Krovisky,...must be doing his investigation telepathically cause I do not ever remember speaking with this person.

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