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Dallas IT worker erased police files by accident, didn’t have enough training, report says

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Dissent

Everton Bailey Jr. reports:

A former Dallas IT worker fired after deleting millions of police files last year while trying to move them from online storage didn’t have enough training to do the job properly, according to an independent investigation of the incident.

Despite his job primarily being focused on working with Commvault, the software company the city contracts with for cloud storage management, the former city technician only received training on the software twice since 2018, said a report analyzing the incident released this week to city officials by law firm Kirkland & Ellis.

Read more at Dallas News.

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