Overview

• Emilie Kiser filed suit on May 27 against the City of Chandler, local police, Maricopa County and the county medical examiner’s office to block records from her 3-year-old son’s May 12 pool accident.
• More than 100 public record requests have been submitted seeking police reports, 911 call transcripts and autopsy details following Trigg’s death six days later.
• Kiser’s legal team says she has not reviewed the documents and expects them to contain graphic, distressing information that would exacerbate her family’s grief.
• Maricopa County’s medical examiner’s office has already cooperated by sealing the case file while the court weighs Kiser’s request.
• The dispute underscores growing tensions between public transparency laws and personal privacy rights for high-profile figures after tragedies.