Andy Wise reports:
The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster.
“It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was a huge mistake, and we are terribly sorry to the mayor and anyone else who was affected.”
Wednesday, Cooper-Young business owner Bret James alerted The Action News 5 Investigators to the dumpster, adjacent to both his property and Literacy Mid-South on Cooper St.
James said what appeared to be computer keyboards in good condition caught his eye. When he went to inspect them, he found the records.
“People’s Social Security numbers, home addresses, bank account and checking account numbers,” James said.
The records, by our inspection, appear to be 6-year-old documents of the former Mid-South Reading Alliance and the University of Memphis’ Memphis Reads program.
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