Another Team Strickland Failure

Personal information of Thousands of State Employees (including Names and Social Security Numbers) stolen from Intern making $10.50/hr!

In another display of incompetent oversight and mismanagement, I give you the following stories from the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Columbus Dispatch.

These stories give details on how almost 140,000 people are now be at risk for a variety of credit and identification thefts. This the result of the Strickland administration's decision to allow an intern in his Office of Management and Budget to keep this information tucked securely away IN HIS CAR!

In true democrat fashion, Governor Strickland's response is to spend more money - over $700,000 on consultants and credit protection services.

Here's a suggestion. Try to follow this because I tend to be an "outside the box" thinker on things like this.

How about issuing a directive that personal and confidential information like this be kept in the office instead of the car?

Maybe even going so far as to say that when this type of data needs to be transported or e-mailed, we spend $50 on encryption software so that when the next intern loses almost 140,000 social security numbers the victims can rest assured that the information is useless to the punk who broke in a car looking for loose change and CD's!

Strickland campaigned that he would bring the most ethical administration ever to Columbus. When does incompetence figure into the equation?

Enquirer Link:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070617/NEWS01/706170372/1056/COL02

Dispatch Link:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/06/17/moreguv.html