Totals are pending, but there was a solid turnout at Tuesday’s National Consumer Protection Week document destruction event co-sponsored by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office and Emporia State Federal Credit Union.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt says his office has organized these free shred events for over a decade after some conversations at the national level, and he says there is still a tremendous demand for events like this — in part because there are still a lot of criminals who target paper documents instead of computers, in part because there is a tremendous amount of identity theft.
Residents could bring no more than three small boxes or bags for shredding by certified companies as part of a secured process. The best practice is to run documents through a cross-cut shredder, but an acceptable alternative is to tear the documents into small enough pieces so they are illegible.
