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County Clerk Speaks Out on Identity Theft  and Public Records

More common than some think: Info. in court file is public, could cause problems

The threat of identity theft in Illinois is "more real than people realize," insisted Kane County Circuit Court Clerk Deborah Seyller.

Seyller on Monday cited those people involved in divorce — and possibly foreclosure — cases in Kane County, as some of the individuals potentially and unknowingly placed at risk.

In Illinois, any information buried within the pages of a court file is public record.

And those individuals who file these documents — often the attorneys in the case of Kane County — do not have to redact, or omit, private information, Seyller said.

"I've seen several different types of case types they file. (There are) things they don't redact ... They don't just say the last four digits of a Social Security number," Seyller said. . .

Read Munson addresses ID theft Courier News Online

 

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