Opinion ID: 520691
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: issues

Text: The parties present the following issues: 12 (1) whether the presence of stigmatizing information in a public employee's personnel file is sufficient publication to implicate the liberty interest under the due process clause; 13 (2) whether allowing access to public records under state law and pursuant to a release signed by the subject of the records satisfies the publication requirement for a liberty interest deprivation; 14 (3) whether allowing access to public records of an employee more than three years after his termination satisfies the requirement that publication of false, stigmatizing charges must attend an employee's termination for a liberty interest deprivation; 15 (4) whether providing a terminated employee with an opportunity to present a statement of the facts leading to his termination and including that statement in the report on his termination satisfies the due process requirement after a liberty interest deprivation; 16 (5) whether providing a grievance procedure, which a terminated employee chooses not to utilize, satisfies the due process requirement after a liberty interest deprivation; and 17 (6) whether releasing an employee's public records, pursuant to a signed release, constitutes an action for which a public official is entitled to qualified immunity.