DCF consultant leaves laptop, containing confidential info, for carthieves
 

DCF consultant leaves laptop, containing confidential info, for car
thieves
By Don Michak, Journal Inquirer
09/21/2007

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/...1 61556&rfi=6

Another computer containing sensitive state information has been
reported stolen, this time from the car of a private consultant outside
his home in Watertown.


In the latest incident, a laptop with personal information on dozens of
clients of the Department of Children and Families in northwest
Connecticut was hefted on either Sept. 5 or Sept. 6, when a series of
car break-ins occurred in the consultant's neighborhood.

Gary Kleeblatt, a DCF spokesman, said today that while the consultant
reported the theft to the agency the day after it happened, officials
had been working since to notify the clients involved in the 41 cases
about which information was stored on the laptop.

He emphasized that the information, which did not include any Social
Security numbers, bank account information, or other data that could put
those clients at risk of identity theft, was "password protected."

But Kleeblatt said the stolen laptop did contain the names of
individuals, their birth dates, and information about the nature of
allegations that led to the agency's involvement.

The theft, which DCF Commissioner Susan I. Hamilton on Thursday said
left her "deeply troubled," came just two weeks after a state-owned
laptop was among several items taken from the car of a Department of
Revenue Services employee while it was parked in an as-yet-undisclosed
location on Long Island.

The DRS computer contained the names and Social Security numbers of
106,000 state taxpayers and the theft sent state officials scurrying to
protect the taxpayers' identities.
That theft also brought to 29 the number of laptops state employees have
reported taken or lost over the past 14 months.

It also led Gov. M. Jodi Rell to order tighter controls on the use of
restricted or confidential data on state laptops, Blackberries, or other
mobile computer devices.

Under the policy Rell announced last week, all state agencies are to be
required to encrypt any data on a mobile device and require additional
protections from unauthorized access and disclosure.

Hamilton said that prior to the theft of the consultant's computer, DCF
already implemented "the governor's comprehensive policy to protect
information" and had set that date as a deadline for its employees to
delete "any unnecessary confidential information on any portable device."

The latest laptop larceny also comes as other state officials grapple
with fallout from the theft of a computer backup tape in Ohio three
months ago.

State Comptroller Nancy Wyman and Attorney General Richard Blumenthahl
have charged that Accenture, a Bermuda-based company hired to implement
computerized financial management systems for both the Connecticut and
Ohio state governments, unlawfully transferred data from here to there
that ended up on the backup.

The tape, which was stolen from the car of a college intern working on
the Ohio system, contained the names and Social Security numbers of 57
state residents as well as information on hundred of state agency bank
accounts and purchasing cards.


©Journal Inquirer 2007





CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.


CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...


BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...