Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Personal Information Found in Globe Dumpster

Last week a visitor to Globe found piles of personal information in a recycling bin. The documents included court paperwork with names, birth dates and social security numbers. There were also juvenile criminal histories and personal mental health histories.

The woman—who prefers to remain anonymous-- told 3TV in Phoenix about it. They contacted Gila County Court Administrator and Chief Probation Officer Kendall Rhyme.

Rhyme says he believes the documents were mistakenly recycled instead of shredded. He says both he and Gila County as a whole will make sure everyone understands how to properly discard such important documents.

6 comments:

  1. I watched Channel 3's video and wonder why it took a week for the person that found the papers to come forward. And, if she hung on to some of the documents for that long, it seems to me that she may have violated some personal rights. I was also a bit surprised that showed some names and addresses in the video. None of that seems quite right.

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    1. I, too, thought that about the news channel showing names and addresses.

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  2. This is inexcusable! Anyone with a brain knows how to properly dispose of documents with personal information! I wouldn't be surprised if it was pure laziness on the part of those who dumped it. They didn't want to take the time to shred it, or the county doesn't want to pay for a document shredding company to come and pick it up. Let's see if the County will sweep this under the rug.

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    1. Well of course they will! Thats really what they do best!

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    1. Good comments. FYI--Kendall Rhyne has issued a public apology for the incident. See KIKO story later.

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