Ran across this today. Alarmist, but not without reason. Kinda scary!
JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI SHOWS THE WORLD PEOPLE'S SSNs...Congressman Emanuel Cleaver(D) has been put at risk by his own county's Records Department Director, Robert Kelly, who has got a SSN most likely belonging to the Congressman on his web site which is on a state tax lien.
Along with the Congressman's SSN on that site are thousands and thousands of SSNs on a variety of documents such as final divorce decrees (called Judgments), child support enforcement papers (also under Judgments), Federal Tax Liens, state tax liens, and mortgage papers (called Deeds of Trust) from the 90's and sometimes the early 2000's, and also other records as well.
To read the Congressman's bio go to:
http://www.house.gov/cleaver/bio.shtml . Then to see his documents go to at
http://records.co.jackson.mo.us . Follow instructions and you can actually see the image of the state tax liens OR you can bring them up by clicking on the numbers of the documents below and then once the information comes up, click on the IMAGE icon.)
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I GUESS IT'S NOT CALLED THE "SHOW ME" STATE FOR NOTHING...BECAUSE PUTTING THESE RECORDS ON THE WWW IS RECKLESS, DANGEROUS AND STUPID...THEY ARE SHOWING THE WORLD THESE RECORDS!
More The author also found Social Security Numbers for county prosecutor Mike Sanders, county executive Katheryn Shields, and others.