Lee Rood reports:
The state on Friday notified about 3,000 Warren County residents that there was a slight chance that identity records may have been exposed after a December fire and waste-handling error two months later.
The fire destroyed the Warren County-owned human services office in Indianola early on the morning of Dec. 4, 2011.
But some documents due to be shredded had been moved to a secure facility owned by Warren County before being shredded. Warren County officials acknowledge that in early February a county maintenance worker mistakenly moved a container full of the damaged documents back to the destroyed building.
The error was not discovered until March 14 when the department received a call from a neighbor of the burned building to say that DHS papers had blown to her yard.
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