Middle Township Municipal Hall is looking into why personal documents were left in a dumpster. The documents contained personal information of residents including social security numbers. Township Administrator Mark Mallett is heading the investigation and promised to fix the problem. [story]

If you leave the decision on what to shred to the lowest trained and lowest paid members of your organization this is all but certain to happen. That is why organizations that truly care about privacy have a policy of shredding everything. This eliminates one possible error point. Plus it all gets recycled.