Danny Spewak reports:
Fifty case files with sensitive information about Erie County constituents were potentially exposed to the public during two separate instances in 2017, according to a letter sent this week from the Department of Social Services to the county legislature.
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A total of 37 Adult Protective Services case files were found in a folder on Clinton Street and returned to the Rath Building security desk, Cannon reported. An internal investigation showed the “vast majority” of cases found in the folder “had workers supervised by a recently retired civil service employee.”
In a separate incident, a total of 13 Child Protective Services case files were potentially exposed after an employee had a bag stolen during a car break-in. That bag with those case files was recovered in a neighbor’s driveway the next day, and the files did not appear compromised, Cannon said. The employee was disciplined for not properly securing the files.
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