Baseball Coach Listed as A Sex Offender
He was coaching for a week when am aware parent notified the school, he was a sex offender from 1996. As a parent, you should be the one notifying school officials because you are aware of these issues. You can do a search on “sex offender registry” to locate those in your area and check out Neighborhood Watch.
The parent telling the school shows a flaw in the schools system of effectively vetting out someone who has a past of inappropriate behavior with children. The school district went on to say they screen volunteers in the hundreds of background checks they do his may have been overlooked. Wha
Identity Theft Over The Internet
Having someone steal your identity seem to be the stuff that science fiction books and movies have on their convoluted plots. But that was before… before the rise of technological advancement, before the creation of the world wide web.
Now, identity theft is no longer a dream for some hackers and internet con artists. One can even say that with their techniques and expertise, it will be like taking candy from a baby… yet this time, it involves more than sweets. Life is at stake, personal and social life.
How can someone steal your identity? By
CT Attorney General Urges Identity Theft Protection after Data Breach
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal believes The Connecticut Teachers’ Retirement Board owes its members identity theft protection and an explanation after waiting six months to inform them they lost a flash drive containing their personal information.
Blumenthal is urging the board to give the 58,000 plus members identity theft protection for two years and provide them with more details of how the flash drive vanished and exactly what information was on it.
The attorney general says the board informed his office of the lost drive last December, but did not tell its members until June.
Blumenthal had urged the board to “immediately notify all individuals whose information was contained on the flash drive, explaining the loss, the information contained on the flash drive and any safety and security information the board and the Department of Information Technology believe is appropriate.”
Despite Blumenthal’s urging, notifications were not distributed until about six months after the breach was discovered, and the notices failed to explain the nature of the breach and categories of information compromised.
“Tens of thousands of individuals impacted by this security breach deserve the specifics and safeguards to protect against identity theft,” Blumenthal said. “The Connec
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Dealing With Identity Cloning
For those on the run, or for people who just want to be anonymous in a crowd, identity cloning may seem like a good idea. In a case like this, someone steals your identity for concealment, or to shield them from some reality they just don’t want to face.
Maybe they’re on the run from police or creditors. Maybe they’re in the country illegally. Maybe they’re paranoid, or just really, really private. It doesn’t matter. ID cloning is full-blown criminal identity theft, and it can hurt you badly
On the Lam
While some identity clones hide under the identity of a deceased person or a young child, they’ll often grab any ID they can to get by under the radar. Full Post…