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University of Oregon archivists who released unvetted records will not be returning to their positions

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

Ah, another breach as a result of a response to a records request.

Laura Frazier reports:

The University of Oregon professor who received a trove of unredacted presidential records said he regrets that the incident has led to the discipline of the employees who released the documents.

In December the University Archives fulfilled a records request from economics professor Bill Harbaugh by giving him a zip drive containing roughly 30,000 pages of documents that university officials said included confidential staff, student and faculty records. Harbaugh subsequently returned the records.

[…]

The university released the results of an investigation into the incident Wednesday afternoon.

Read more on The Oregonian.

Previous coverage by The Oregonian had described the correspondence involved:

Although no Social Security numbers, financial information or medical records apparently were divulged, Coltrane wrote that, “We are committed to taking steps to mitigate the potential injury associated with this situation.”

The information includes records such as correspondence to and from the last four UO presidents, according to Tobin Klinger, a university spokesman.

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