Posted on 07/26/2007 5:15:29 PM PDT by dragnet2
John and Ken broadcasting on KFI, Los Angeles reported a short while ago that the Superior Court in Orange County, Ca. is sending personal information such as personal drivers license information, and insurance information out of the country into Mexico for processing.
They reported further that this story has just publicly surfaced yesterday. They reported the following:
If you get a ticket, or need to deal with the Orange County Courts, your drivers license information, and automobile insurance informatory is being picked up daily by a truck at the Orange County Superior Court and it's loaded up with citizens personal information and the trucks are being driven across the border to Nogales, Mexico for processing.
Apparently the board of supervisors were angry yesterday late that the issue was being reported publicly, but now it seems several officials affiliated with the County of Orange are demanding this activity stop immediately, and they are demanding to know who's idea, or who was behind sending citizens personal, sensitive documents out of the country to Mexico.
It was just now reported that fingers are being pointed at a "Superior Court official" but they did not identify this person or persons at this time.
The board of supervisors this morning were apparently outraged this morning that KFI and others were reporting this. Now it seems this has changed and spokesperson Janet Nguyen from Orange County is agreeing with the radio hosts, and others, and are acting horrified at what is occurring here, due to the security risk of personal information of thousands of citizens of this country, sitting on a desk in Nogales Mexico.
Being reported now that a company called Calcoast picks up TONS of information from ALL OC courts including citizen (DOB) dates of birth, drivers license, information vehicle license numbers, names, addresses, etc are now in Mexico.
Story seems to be breaking and is being covered extensively in Los Angeles and OC.
The worse is TransUnion (credit reporting agency) outsourcing its customer service to places like India. The people who answer the phones there (although they are so very nice and polite) have quick access to your SSN and personal credit data.
This should make it easier for illegals to get their fake ID’s before they leave Mexico for the US.
I'd bet we'll seeing more in regards to this story real soon.
I can't imagine with all the identity fraud going on involving Mexican nationals and illegal aliens, this is happening.
They are saying a police officer was the one who tipped off others about OC shipping citizens personal documents into Mexico.
Yes, please, give my personal information to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, a country that is notorious for citizens that are extremely “bribable”. Gives me the “warm and fuzzes”.
Caller on the air now, an alleged court employee just stated their supervisors told all staff not to tell anyone about this activity.
It was a police officer that blew the whistle here.
Check #7.
That's exactly what they are talking about now.
< /not quite kidding >
And that ain't the half of it for Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
The border towns are worse than the interior. Virtually everyone in Nogales is related to a crime family member, they're all involved with some form of border crime, and the place is just a cesspool - as anyone who's been there can tell you.
Anyone from Southern Arizona who has either been there or knows any of the ordinary people there ( they do have a few ) is aware of this.
To think that citizen records are taken there for "processing".....it's like sending an invitation to the burglar to come take what he wants.
Is this just a case of “the fix is in” or white guilt for the poor unemployed and downtrodden Mexican or a cheap way to help a money strapped local government or plain stupidity and/or a combination of all the above?
It ought to be illegal to transmit such personal information to anyplace outside US jurisdiction for processing.
This is how are P-Poor Justice System works.
There is nothing to worry about, the American citizens personal information is safe. It is sent electronically to Mexico after being scanned, and the Mexican office in Nogales Mexico has Mexican police and security guards, cameras, and they carry badges.
OMG...
New York jokes aside, recall that Orange County went bankrupt about a decade back because of bad investments ( er, "gambling" ) that the County Treasurer had engaged in.
I suspect that cost controls since then have been rabid. So a little risky business was not beneath them.
Wonder how many people had their bank accounts emptied, or suddenly found tens of thousands in credit card charges, or found out that they actually didn't live in Orange County at all, but in fact are a hispanic male living in downtown Phoenix and working as a sheetrocker?
The possibilities are endless....unfortunately.
I'd bet a cup of coffee they will soon be forced to end their personal information outsourcing to Mexico.
Of course in the whole scheme of things, given the state of affairs it probably wont help much.
Ping.
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