GRAND PRAIRIE � Some employees of a Grand Prairie business are concerned their personal records were not protected.
�You would never think that your employer would make that mistake,� said an employee of the City of Grand Prairie who asked to remain anonymous.
She and other employees are on edge all because of a mistake revealed in a letter that said employees� personal information � including their social security numbers � ended up on the city�s website.
It all started when the city began working with a contractor to iron out details for workers� compensation insurance for city employees. The proposal was put on the city�s website, along with hundreds of employee names and social security numbers.
�It was a mistake, you know, on our part to tell you the truth,� said Amy Sprinkles with the City of Grand Prairie. �We just didn�t catch it.�
The mistake wasn�t caught for an entire year.
Sprinkles said she�s not sure how the oversight happened. She said as soon as the mistake was discovered, the information was pulled from the website, and the city notified all employees in a letter.
�We wanted to do the right thing by telling people what happened,� Sprinkles said. �We could have not told anybody, and they�d never know.�
But the employee News 8 talked with said, employees still feel in the dark.
�You�ll never know now, unless you go out and check your credit scores on a routine basis for quite some time whether this has affected you or your family,� she said.