[Dataloss] "Confidential" court records posted on line

[Henry Brown]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=716547

Records released in error
Group posts confidential court data from county on its Web site
By STEVE SCHULTZE

Milwaukee County officials mistakenly released numerous confidential 
court records for a citizens group's Web site that detail payments for 
tests and other costs linked to to mental competency, paternity and 
guardianship cases, officials acknowledged

The records obtained by Citizens for Responsible Government Network were 
part of a county database of 188,000 purchasing invoices for 2006 and 
2007. The group put the information on its Web site Tuesday morning. 
Late Friday, the group agreed to remove the confidential court records 
at the county's request.

However, a check of the group's Web site Sunday night found dozens of 
entries for psychiatric examinations and guardianship fees in which the 
clients' names were still listed, sometimes along with the court case 
number. Most of those listings were for 2006.

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