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Once again, outsourcing document destruction proves to be compliant with document disposal laws as well as cost effective.
On February 20, 2009 The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia reported that Virginia Beach Sheriff Paul Lanteigne paid for an industrial shredder for the shredding of government documents by prison inmates.
The plan is supposed to save the city money on the contract it has with a document shredding company. However, the bottom line is that in order to try to maintain secure shredding of government documents by prisoners (quiet the oxy moron) prison staff will have to be paid to supervise the shredding. In the end, protection of personal information is at risk and the cost to employ supervisory staff will more than likely cost more than the secure shredding contract.
Would you want to know that inmates are perhaps getting a glimpse at your personal information as they feed documents into a shredder? Meanwhile, if extraordinary precautions have to be taken to ensure that inmates don’t have access to any sensitive information — whether that’s providing extra security or presorting the documents to remove those that contain any but the most mundane information — it adds to the cost of the program and cuts down any savings that otherwise might be obtained.
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