State health regulators found that 14 additional people affiliated with UCLA Medical Center, including four physicians, read without permission celebrity medical records. The additional people were discovered when the California Department of Health Services requested that the medical records that had been accessed by Lawanda Jackson be checked for further privacy breaches.

Lawanda Jackson, a former employee of the UCLA Medical Center, was blamed a month ago for allegedly reading without permission the medical files of the governor’s wife and 60 others, which were supposed to be confidential. The records belonged to Farrah Fawcett, Maria Shriver (Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife) and some 60 other celebrities. After the incident, she told the Times that she was just “being noisy.” Carole A. Klove, the hospital chief compliance, said that there was not any evidence that the woman shared the information with anyone. Fawcett’s attorneys were afraid that the information could be published in tabloids and they emphasized the fact that the employee had no authorization to look into the files. She received “written counseling” for the privacy breach.

Other UCLA employees read without permission medical records of the pop star Britney Spears, who was hospitalized at the hospital’s neuropsychiatric unit in January. 

State and hospital officials said employees attempted to access personal medical information of other patients as well. Even though they weren’t stars, or public figures, and they haven’t showed it to tabloids, this should be a subject of concern for hospital’s officials.

Dale Tate, a spokeswoman for the UCLA Medical Center, confirmed that employees are required to sign a written confidentiality agreement and complete patient privacy training online.

The UCLA Medical Center did not appropriately report the privacy bleaches to the Department of Health Services, the California Department of Health Services report revealed.