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GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Dissent

WRDW reports:

The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home.

Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented it to Heather Ward and her husband last year.

[…]

Ward’s former landlord also discovered something else left behind. “People’s social security numbers that were supposed to be recipients includes birth certificates all their vital information,” she said. We counted thirty-four files full of personal documents from people who applied for assistance with Community in Action. “I knew something was wrong here,” Wilcher said.

Read more on WRDW.

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