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FL: Personal Info Dumped, Left For ID Crooks To Recycle

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Dissent

Greg Pallone reports:

Thousands of names in hundreds of pages of city collections reports from 1998 were found in a newspaper and recycling bin behind the Palm Bay Community Center late last week.

They contain names, addresses, phone numbers, delinquent amounts owed, plus driver’s license and social security numbers.

[…]

Deputy City Manager Sue Hann, after some research, acknowledges the 11-year documents are internal.

“What we found was that nobody is currently doing records, disposition activities that involve records from back in 1998,” Hann said.

Read more on CFNews13.com

Hann also said that since the report would have been available to anyone who requested it under public records access, it’s impossible to figure out where the information came from.

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