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NY: Student Records Found Dumped in Trash Bins

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dissent

Andrea Day reports that files  found tossed in a dumpster behind a strip mall on Long Island were from the Huntington Learning Center in East Northport.

The woman who found the files

said she couldn’t believe what she found in the trash bins behind the store where she works. The files had ages, work numbers, and personal history.

Victoria Sieven, the director of the Huntington Learning Center, told Fox 5 that the center hired a company to pick up the files from storage and shred them. She said she was appalled when she learned that the files were dumped instead.

Read more on MyFOXNY.


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