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Article: Confidential Child Records Were Online
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- September 30, 2004
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AP Online
09-30-2004
Dateline: MIAMI
In another black eye for Florida's child-welfare agency, officials acknowledged that confidential records for nearly 4,000 abused and neglected children were available on the Internet until this week.
The files were accessible on the Web site of Kids Central, a privately run child welfare agency. They included the names of foster children, birth dates, Social Security numbers, photographs and case histories. They even provided directions and maps to children's foster homes.
The Department of Children & Families, which oversees Kids Central under a contract, had the Web site shut down Wednesday after being alerted by The Miami Herald, said Janice ...