From The New Mexican:
The state Judicial Standards Commission director on Monday took possession of scores of Santa Fe Municipal Court documents found blowing down the street in front of the court building.
The documents, which included personal information about court defendants and records detailing bank deposits in a Municipal Court account, stretched from a trash bin outside the Santa Fe Police Department, past the city court building and nearly a block to Airport Road.
“How those got there and when they were disposed of, we have no way to tell,” Santa Fe Police Chief Beverly Lennen said.
The debris included citations containing personal information about those who had been cited, including names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers.
What does the police chief mean, “no way to tell”? NewMexiKen assumes this is violation of some city or state privacy law; that is, a crime has been committed. Who would have access to the records? Whose job is it to dispose of them (or not to dispose of them, as the case may be)? It’s not as if this is just littering.