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New Orleans school employees’ records left in ruins of Katrina-devestated warehouse

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

We’d all like to think we can trust our employers to protect our personal and financial information, but if New Orleans public school employees every believed it, they’ve had a rude awakening.

The massive warehouse used to store employee records was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, but apparently it contents have been ignored or forgotten since. Last week a local reporter found the gate to the warehouse yard standing open, the overhead door raised and any pretense of security absent. Within he found a mountain of personnel records. (more…)