From the State of Arizona's Records Management Web Site...

The State Records Management Center (RMC) is a custom built records storage 
facility. It is located just two blocks west of the State Capitol building 
in Phoenix, Arizona. RMC provides storage for the inactive records of 
Arizona state agencies....

They even have vault storage available for electronic records.

No excuse at all!

Tod Chernikoff, CRM

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From: "Larry Medina" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 15:50
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [RM] Raindrip - Up to 40,000 kids' identities stolen from DES 
in burglary

>>PHOENIX - Up to 40,000 children's identities were stored on Department
>>of Economic Security hard drives that were stolen from a storage unit in
>>October.
>>
>>http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/Phoenix-local-news-110308-des
>>-stolen-kids-ids.179ed7ad7.html
>
> The letter reads, "The hard drives contained info that might include name
> address insurance info child disability date of birth and social security
> number."
>
> That is the personal information of some 40,000 Valley children that was
> stored on hard drives that are now in the hands of thieves.
>
> DES spokesperson Liz Barker Alvarez tells 3TV, "We don't have any reason 
> to
> believe that DES and our computers were the target of theft."
>
> Still they were stolen from a public storage unit where DES keeps its
> back-up files. According to the police report, a man and woman broke in 
> and
> left with five hard drives valued at $450.
>
> The information on those hard drives is obviously much more valuable than 
> that.
>
> So let me get this straight.. A STATE AGENCY that had both 'economic' and
> 'security' in their agency name was storing PHI/PII of minors in a PUBLIC
> STORAGE UNIT?!?!?!?
>
> And there is no State policy (I'm sure) for protection requirements for 
> this
> type of data... nor it there an IT policy for what to do with backups? 
> And
> they were storing removed hard drives as BACKUPS???
>
> I'm mortified...
>
> Larry
>
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