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Inmates’ personal info mistakenly released to ID thief

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Dissent

Lou Whitmire reports:

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections mistakenly released the Social Security numbers of more than 2,000 inmates at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution to a convicted identity thief from Mansfield as part of a public records request.

Read more on Mansfield News Journal.

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