Fred, thank you.
New developments tonight in college parks.
Government document dump investigation.
Neighbors share these photos of private paperwork in a public
recycling bin last week.
Now, the city has announced its own investigation.
And Channel 2's Courtney Francisco is live at the attorney
general's office where the documents are now.
Courtney yes, Linda, this agency is working to confirm where
the documents came from.
Who disposed of them in College Park is now responding
to that.
Back at the College Park recycling center, more neighbors say
they too saw confidential city documents in a dumpster.
There were Social Security numbers, There were copies of checks
and routing numbers and vendor information like that was that
was disturbing.
Dom Kelly is part of a group of College Park
attorneys, business owners and managers who say they found hundreds
of private paperwork in the public place June 30th and
took them to an agent at the attorney general's office
July 10th.
We had four days of holiday and that week that
we turned into attorney general, we reached out on Monday,
we got our contact on Tuesday and we delivered him
Wednesday.
In the city statement announcing its own investigation into the
discovery, a College Park spokesperson wrote these documents were discovered,
yet not shared or turned into the City of College
Park or College Park Police Department for well over a
week.
It's upsetting that even the impression that the city is
trying to deflect this upon citizens.
The city statement said if these are in fact City
of College Park documents, there is a strict and detailed
shredding and destruction protocol for any confidential documents leaving City
Hall are being recycled, and if the mishandling or egregious
removal of documents is found to be intentional, there may
be further criminal action.
I think we we did the right thing.
And College Park Statement says all aspects of the investigation
will become public record once complete, reporting live from the
Attorney Generals office.
Courtney Francisco, Channel 2 Action News.