Robert T. Garrett reports:
The state registrar of vital statistics and her top deputy have been fired for not disclosing several years ago that their office lost a book containing records of 500 Texas births in early 1993.
The missing book — one of about 800 volumes of birth records that state workers assemble each year from data passed on by local registrars — contained sensitive personal information on about 1,500 infants and parents, including the parents’ Social Security numbers, Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams said Wednesday.
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