The real story behind the Nushawn Williams case: media distortions, judicial contortions, ruined lives In the fall of 1997, public authorities in Chautauqua County, New York, were granted an exception to the state's HIV confidentiality law--and released Nushawn Williams's name and picture to the press, deeming him a "public health threat," the source of a "near epidemic" of HIV transmission. Williams, who is HIV-positive, had...