Sex, Lies and HIV: When What You Don’t Tell Your Partner Is a Crime What sets Hernandez’s story apart is the unprecedented scope and detail of his reporting. Bringing together information from millions of records—including court files, police reports, and offender registries in 19 states—he built the largest database ever compiled of cases in which people were accused of breaking HIV disclosure laws. With this data, he was able to cut through the rhetoric on all sides and paint a portrait of the astonishing variety of human relationships that had engendered such cases.
