HOUSTON – Cypress Creek EMS has filed a lawsuit against former television news reporter Wayne Dolcefino and his communications firm, Dolcefino Communications, after the latter asked to disclose documents, recent Harris County District Court records show.
The suit, filed Sept. 23 in the Harris County 127th District Court and then transferred to the 165th District Court three days later, that the defendants made a request under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act in July 2014 to access the plaintiff’s payroll records, as well as recently sought all invoices from Litchfield Cavo LLP between Jan. 1, 2014 and the present day.
According to the original petition, CCEMS is not required to produce the financial documents in question.
“The names and personal identifying information contained in the payroll records are protected from disclosure by the right to privacy,” the suit says.
“Payroll records include a great deal of personal and confidential information about employees that have nothing to do with a non-profit corporation’s financial activities.”
CCEMS further asserts that the invoices contain information protected by the attorney-client privilege, stating that the documents are not those a non-profit corporation must make available for public inspection.
Attorneys Andrew T. McKinney and Matthew D. Walker of the law firm Litchfield Cavo LLP in Houston are representing the complainant.
Harris County 165th District Court Case No. 2016-64716