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Social Security

We Know Who You Are

Charles Oliver | 8.27.2015 6:00 AM

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Illinois officials are blaming human error for releasing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 1,000 Department of Corrections employees to the friend of an inmate. They say the information was accidentally included when the department responded to an open records request by the friend.

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