Hernandez v. Securus Technologies, Inc.

Filing 9

Judge Richard G. Stearns: ORDER entered granting in part and denying in part 8 Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Zierk, Marsha)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
CIVIL ACTION No. 16-12402-RGS
AARON HERNANDEZ
v.
SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
ORDER ON MOTION FOR
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
December 1, 2016
STEARNS, D.J.
Defendant Securus Technologies, Inc. (Securus) is ordered to take all
necessary steps to ensure that it, together with its employees and agents,
refrain from discarding, destroying, erasing, overwriting, purging, deleting
or manipulating any data in its custody or to which it has access, in an
electronic form or otherwise, as it relates to the following:
1. The security breach of Securus’s electronic database that occurred
the summer of 2014 and resulted in Plaintiff Aaron Hernandez’s phone
recordings being accessed by an unauthorized party, including but not
limited to, how the breach occurred, what was accessed during the breach,
the identity of the party who accessed information, additional parties to

whom Hernandez’s phone recordings were provided, the telephone
recordings of every nature and description involving Hernandez maintained
by Securus, and any records of such recordings;
2. Any and all communications, in electronic forth or otherwise,
between Securus, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and/or other parties
regarding the security breach; and
3.

Any and all records, investigations and/or findings made by

Securus, made on Securus’s behalf, or made by third parties concerning the
security breach.
Defendant Securus will have until December 12, 2016, to submit any
objections to the entry of a preliminary injunction directed to the same
subject matter.
This Order shall remain in effect until further order of the Court.
SO ORDERED.
/s/ Richard G. Stearns__________
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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