Bob Saget’s household recordsdata lawsuit to dam launch of demise investigation data

The household of Bob Saget has filed a lawsuit to dam the discharge of some data associated to his demise investigation in Florida.

Saget’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, and three daughters, Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in opposition to Orange County Sheriff John Mina and the District 9 Medical Examiner’s workplace.

Each companies have been dealing with the probe into Saget’s demise after the comic, 65, was discovered useless Jan. 9 in his resort room on the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, in Florida.

The lawsuit, filed in Orange County, Florida, seeks to maintain some demise investigation data — together with images, video recordings, audio and post-mortem data — confidential and exempt from public disclosure because of how they depict Saget.

“Upon data and perception, a few of these Data graphically depict Mr. Saget, his likeness or options, or elements of him, and have been made by Defendants throughout Defendants’ investigations,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit says the household will “undergo irreparable hurt within the type of excessive psychological ache, anguish, and emotional misery” if the data are launched publicly.

The swimsuit states that sure media retailers have filed or plan to file public data requests for paperwork within the case, however “no respectable public curiosity can be served by the discharge or dissemination of the data to the general public.” 

The household additionally seeks a short lived injunction till the court docket makes a ruling within the case. 

The Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace launched an announcement within the wake of the swimsuit.

“Whereas we’re delicate to the household’s considerations about the proper to privateness, that should be balanced with our dedication to transparency, compliance with the legislation, and the general public’s proper to know,” the company mentioned within the assertion.

NBC Information has reached out to the District 9 Medical Examiner’s Workplace for remark. 

The lawsuit comes days after it was revealed the “Full Home” actor died of head trauma.The Saget household mentioned in an announcement that officers concluded he unintentionally hit the again of his head on one thing and went to sleep, noting no medicine or alcohol have been concerned.

The Saget household’s assertion was the primary public announcement of Saget’s reason for demise. 

Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany dominated Saget’s demise an accident.

“It’s most possible that the decedent suffered an unwitnessed fall backwards and struck the posterior facet of his head,” Stephany mentioned.

Saget additionally examined constructive for Covid-19, the health worker discovered, confirming an earlier household assertion. That discovering was not linked to his demise.

The health worker has beforehand mentioned there was no proof of drug use or foul play. The Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace had mentioned the identical factor on the time.