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7/16/2025
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
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Sabha, Tamer
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PublicComment-AutoResponse; Diaz, Eligio; Gao, Beilei; Sabha, Tamer Public Comment - Pasadena Public Safety Committee Meeting 07/16/25 Public Comment - Pasadena Public Safety Committee 07-17-25 LA CARE Medi-Cal CAL- AIM.pdf
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Hi,
Please find attached mypubliccommentfortheJuly 16, 2025 Pasadena PSC Meeting, agenda item 4. LA CARE Medi-Cal (CAL-AIM).
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Yadi
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4. LA CARE Medi-Cal (CAL-AIM)
Pasadena's continued refusal to ensure the protection of Pasadenan's privacy is jeopardizing the health, security and safety of residents. It's really astounding given the current volatile federal political climate where people are being persecuted for their perceived nationality/immigration status that is happening within our City. There are serious privacy issues with the participation in CAL-AIM that are being glossed over by City Council that is putting people in unnecessary harm.
The AP news recently reported that the federal administration gave the personal information of millions of Medicaid recipients to the Department of Homeland Security - which included the immigration status an other personal information of people living in California. CalMatters revealed that Covered California was sharing personal health data to tech companies like Linkedln violating privacy laws like HIPAA.2 This has lead to a class action lawsuit3 and congress to call for an investigation into the privacy and security concerns.4 The Pasadena Health Department is the only one of the three California City Health departments that does not display a privacy policy on their website, nor advise patients of their important CIMA and HIPPA privacy protections.
Long Beach Health Department's privacy policy: https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022- 03/Public-Health-Notice-Privacv-Practices.pdf
Berkeley Health Department's privacy policy:
https://berkelevca.gov/sites/defaulVfiles/2022-03/Public-Health-Notice-PrivacY-Practices.pdf Pasadena o needs to get serious about protecting privacy. Our safety and security depends on it.
Yadi
Pasadena Public Safety Committee
July 16, 2025
4. LA CARE Medi-Cal (CAL-AIM)
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2_https://calmatters.org/health/2025/04/covered-california~linkedin-tracker/ 3 https://catmatters.org/health/2025/05/covered-california-linkedin-lawsuit/ 4 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25981632-06-17-2025-letter-to-covered-california-3- a64fl928e0/