Updated: Jamie Reed’s Affidavit Found on MO State AG’s Website
Links that once pointed to the affidavit now return a 404 page, but a smart reader located the page.
by Evan Urquhart
UPDATE: Soon after we published an alert reader located the page. While links to Reed’s affidavit in news articles are broken and it isn’t locatable on the AG’s site via search, it does not seem at this time to have been intentionally removed by the AG.
The saga of former gender-clinic worker turned anti-trans activist Jamie Reed has grown even stranger as the affidavit containing the unsubstantiated allegations Reed made last February against the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital seeming to have vanished, or at least quietly moved to somewhere beyond our ability to turn up. Links that previously led to the affidavit currently return a 404 not found page, although versions of the page from August 25th and earlier remain viewable through the Internet Archive’s wayback machine. The site claims the website has been restructured and instructs the user to use naviagtion and search tools, however attempts to locate the affidavit through either of these methods did were unsuccessful in locating a publicly available copy on the Attorney General’s website.
screenshot from the web page that previously contained the affidavit of Jamie Reed
Some news outlets in months past have covered concerns of parents that the affidavit included personal medical information that, while it did not include names, was detailed enough for famlies to recognize the specific medical histories of their transgender children who were past or current patients at the Center. However, concerns that Reed may have violated HIPAA policies have never been covered by the mainstream press, including being left out of a recent rehashing of Reed’s story in the New York Times.
Assigned was alerted to the disappearance of the affidavit by an alert reader earlier this evening, September 8. It is unclear when or why the affidavit was taken down or moved. Assigned reached out to Attorney General Bailey’s office for comment through a publicly available contact form. We will update this story with any comment from the AG, or further information if it is forthcoming.
Assigned Media’s spreadsheet summarizing every allegation and noting which ones have been refuted or partially confirmed remains publicly viewable here.
