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IA: Private student documents found at recycling center

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Dissent

Holly Hines reports:

Documents found at an Iowa City recycling center last month contain personal information about local elementary school students, including their names, addresses and parents’ names.

Antonio Montoya, a 22-year-old Iowa State University student, said he visited City Carton Recycling on March 19 and noticed a pile of Grant Wood Elementary students’ Individualized Education Program documents, which detail personalized education plans for students with disabilities, lying in a paper bin.

Montoya said he tried contacting the Iowa City Community School District and Grant Wood Elementary but couldn’t reach anyone that day, which was a Saturday. He said he was worried about leaving the documents in plain sight, so he took them and notified the Iowa Department of Education about the issue.

Nice guy.

Read more on Iowa City Press-Citizen.


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1 thought on “IA: Private student documents found at recycling center”

  1. Jordana Ari says:
    April 9, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    That is a true class act and a real role model.

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