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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Ohio JFS says they told Butler County to go public with misplaced documents
Officials from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services say they advised Butler County to let the public know about a security breach that caused documents containing personal information to “periodically” get tossed into a public Dumpster, potentially affecting 10,600 people.
“If you have no way of knowing who these people were, at the very least you should put an advertisement in the local paper,” is what Ben Johnson, ODJFS spokesman, said his office told the county.
“Our advice was never to do nothing,” he said.
Johnson said his office did advise the county that a state law about disclosure of such security breaches didn’t apply in this instance, because that law pertains to digital information. But he said the county should not be limited by the law.
“There’s a difference between what is legally required, and what is ethical, and obviously if you feel like people’s personal information has been compromised, you should try to notify those people,” Johnson said.
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Document disposal debacle - Internal memos
Below are the internal communications in Butler County government where they try to decide what to do after a bunch of records were improperly disposed of in a Dumpster by Butler Tech:
Note the letter county leaders drafted — and never sent out — that would have let the 10,600 people possibly affected know of the problem; and the detailed narrative of what happened by Jerome Kearns, deputy director of Butler County Job and Family Services.
Included below is also a copy of the law that state officials say pertains to electronic records, not hard copies that can be picked up and read by anyone.
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