http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/Controller-faults-security-in-Department-of-Human-Services.html
By Bob Warner
philly.com
October 9, 2013
The city's Department of Human Services needs to improve security for the
computer system that keeps records on troubled children and youth, City
Controller Alan Butkovitz said Wednesday in a report on the department's
Family and Child Tracking Systems.
DHS did not perform security background checks on employees of the
software contractors who developed and maintain the system, Butkovitz
said, and former city social workers have continued to have access to it,
including one who left the city payroll more than 15 years ago.
"Unauthorized access increases the risk that confidential data could be
compromised and abused," Butkovitz said in a news release. His office said
it was unaware of any actual situations where unauthorized personnel
looked at case records.
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