Years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, a Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) building in Algiers, Louisiana, abandoned because of storm damage, containing reams of personal identifiable documents, remains unsecured. WWL TV reports that the HANO building is open to anyone, and a community organizer showed reporters documents, including Section 8 housing paperwork, payroll records, photocopies of driver's licenses and other documents rich with personally identifiable information. "Here's a person's drivers license. His Social Security number," said community organizer Malik Rahim. "I mean everything that's pertinent to that person's history is just left and abandoned." Confronted with the information, a HANO representative said it was the first they'd heard of the situation.
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