Re Teary's information about where she lives/what was signed, them having no information on any danger to self/unidentified woman...
Confidentiality trumps freedom of speech.
Teary's situation is about her rights as a patient/client...and they have been violated.
From Wikipedia--easier to understand explanation.
Freedom of speech is the concept of the inherent
human right to voice one's opinion
publicly without fear of
censorship or
punishment. "Speech" is not limited to public speaking and is generally taken to include other forms of expression. The right is preserved in the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is granted formal recognition by the laws of most nations. Nonetheless the degree to which the right is upheld in practice varies greatly from one nation to another. In many nations, particularly those with relatively
authoritarian forms of government, overt government censorship is enforced. Censorship has also been claimed to occur in other forms (see
propaganda model) and there are different approaches to issues such as
hate speech,
obscenity, and
defamation laws even in countries seen as
liberal democracies.
Political Library, Answers.com
Liberty to express opinions and ideas without hindrance, and especially without fear of punishment. Despite the constitutional guarantee of free speech in the United States, legal systems have not treated freedom of speech as absolute. Among the more obvious restrictions on the freedom to say just what one likes where one likes are laws regulating incitement, sedition, defamation, slander and libel, blasphemy, the expression of racial hatred, and conspiracy.
The liberal tradition has generally defended freedom of the sort of speech which does not violate others' rights or lead to predictable and avoidable harm, but it has been fierce in that defence because a free interchange of ideas is seen as an essential ingredient of democracy and resistance to tyranny, and as an important agent of improvement. The distinction between an action falling under the description of speech and one which does not is not clear cut, because many non-verbal actions can be seen as making a statement—for example, burning a flag or destroying a symbol. Again, valued freedom of speech embraces publication—writing, broadcasting, distributing recordings—as well as oral delivery of ideas.
— Andrew Reeve
Highlights are not mine, they were contained with the articles.