More than a month ago, Montgomery County’s inspector general revealed that a county file-sharing platform provided access to confidential files of child sexual and physical abuse victims to any employee and contractor.
The victims’ information came from the Tree House Advocacy Center, a Rockville nonprofit that the county contracts to provide evaluations, therapy, support services and care to victims.
Nearly seven weeks after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report, the county is still working on technology protections throughout the county’s file-sharing platforms for files with sensitive information.
The records of the children revealed names, medical information, specific abuse, and other details. It was the second time this year the OIG has found vulnerabilities within the county’s file-sharing platforms.
Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi told the council on Tuesday that she continues to be concerned that documents containing sensitive data still have not been secured...
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ReplyDelete“We’re the county government. There is no business that we have that’s more important and more sacred than protecting vulnerable children,” he said. “We have to make sure that we’re taking that extremely seriously.”