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November 16th, 2011

SKAGIT COUNTY'S NOTICE OF INADVERTENT DISCLOSURE OF HEALTH CARE AND OTHER RECEIPTS

This notice is to alert those who may have utilized services from the Skagit County Health Department and other Skagit County departments. In mid-September it was discovered that certain receipts generated from Skagit County Health Department and other Skagit County departments were inadvertently moved to a Skagit County public webserver that was consequentially accessed by Google webcrawlers. Citizens should be advised that no credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, birthdates or addresses were contained on these receipts.

However, a portion of these receipts identified certain services that were provided by Skagit County Health Department and other departmental transactions. Skagit County, upon learning of this event, immediately took aggressive steps to remove the information from Google's search capabilities. In order to prevent future releases Skagit County has blocked its public webservers from third party search engines and have additionally modified Skagit County procedures concerning moving of internal records.

For further information, please contact Peter Browning, Director of Skagit County Health Department at (360) 336-9380.