OAKLAND, Calif. – At least five employees in California’s Oakland Unified School District have fallen prey to identity thieves over the last two weeks, and they say it’s due to the district’s lackadaisical approach to guarding their payroll and legal records.

ABC 7 News reports Oakland school officials left boxes of sensitive employee and student records inside an administration building that was suddenly abandoned 18 months ago after “a janitor left a faucet on overnight, flooding the building.”

Since then, the building has become a popular hangout for vagrants, some of whom are suspected of using information found on neglected W-2 forms and other documents to steal employees’ identities.

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The five victims (so far) have had “several credit cards taken out in their names, store accounts and inquiries into their retirement accounts,” ABC7 News reports. One victim says his checking account was wiped out to the penny.

The identity thieves may also start targeting Oakland students. Vagrants and mischief-makers also had access to student records –complete with names, addresses, birth dates and social security numbers – “all a criminal needs to torment them for years,” notes ABC 7 News.

Antwan Wilson, Oakland schools’ just-hired superintendent, declined to be interviewed for the story, and members of the district’s school board did not return ABC 7 New reporter Dan Noyes’ calls.

A school spokesman did speak with Noyes, and said the district offers “a deep apology” to students and employees.

The district has since hired a company to begin gathering and removing the documents. The load-out is expected to take until early next week.

The district has also pledged to “take care of any employee who’s been affected, including paying for credit cleansing or a protection service,” reports the news site.

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Former Oakland school board president and current mayoral candidate Dan Siegel decried the sloppy recordkeeping as “flabbergasting.”

“The school district has an absolute legal responsibility to safeguard the personnel information of its employees and to safeguard student records as well,” Siegel said.

It’s doubtful any district employee will be fired for this colossal screw up. The adults running America’s education system are very clannish; they take of each other as much as possible. The only ones who will suffer for this boneheaded blunder are the innocent employees and possibly the students.

Just another day in the world of government-run schools.