Records Box Fell off a Truck, hit by another truck and knocked down the street

Posted on Sep 2, 2009 in Records Management News

Miss­ing Cuya­hoga County records box con­tain­ing per­sonal infor­ma­tion for 300 peo­ple has been returned intact Posted by Laura John­ston Plain Dealer Reporter Sep­tem­ber 01, 2009 19:05PM

A miss­ing box of Cuya­hoga County records con­tain­ing per­sonal infor­ma­tion for 300 peo­ple has been returned, untam­pered with, county offi­cials said Tuesday.

The box fell off a truck Aug. 24 on the way to a stor­age facil­ity. Encrypted tapes in the box held infor­ma­tion, includ­ing Social Secu­rity num­bers, for pri­vate ven­dors who pro­vide ser­vices to the county. The tapes did not con­tain per­sonal infor­ma­tion about county employees.

The box was hit by another truck and was knocked down the street, county Admin­is­tra­tor Jim McCaf­ferty said. That same day, an employee from a com­pany that does busi­ness with the county’s stor­age ven­dor, Iron Moun­tain, picked up the box for safekeeping.

The com­pany, which McCaf­ferty declined to iden­tify, planned to return it to Iron Moun­tain. But when employ­ees read a Plain Dealer story Sat­ur­day, they learned the county was look­ing for the box. On Mon­day, com­pany employ­ees returned it.

County offi­cials on Tues­day opened the box and ver­i­fied every­thing was there.

For the full arti­cle click here http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/09/missing_cuyahoga_county_record.html

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