All this information is ending up somewhere…….

FORT LAUDERDALE — A laptop computer containing personal information on 12,000 ChildNet applicants has been stolen from the agency, the latest in a string of recent thefts at the nonprofit that runs Broward County’s child welfare programs.

Police on Wednesday named a former ChildNet assistant facility manager with a lengthy criminal record as a suspect in the computer theft at the North Broward Regional Service Center at 1400 W. Commercial Blvd., although no one has been charged.

Sgt. Randy Pelham, head of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department’s economic crimes unit, said detectives were still trying to recover the laptop, which was discovered missing Friday. He said the information on the computer is detailed enough to allow a criminal to take out car loans, lines of credit or even home mortgages, he said.

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