Shred Sensitive Documents at Sept. 22 Fall Shred Event

Members of the University of Cincinnati community can bring tax forms, bank statements, credit reports and any other documents to be safely shredded at the Office of Information Security's Shred event on Tuesday, Sept. 22. 

The event will be held at Lot 13 outside Kettering Lab Complex between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., or until the truck is full.

The free event is hosted by IT@UC's Office of Information Security (OIS) with help from Document Destruction, a local company that securely shreds and recycles sensitive materials.

Located within University of Cincinnati Information Technologies, OIS stands to protect and secure university data – including student, faculty and staff information. Sometimes, the best way to protect old data is to destroy it.

The first shred event in June 2012 saw participants from 33 departments within UC submit 18,680 pounds of documents for shredding and recycling.

OIS not only wants to ensure participants that their data is protected, but that it is also destroyed in a way that doesn’t hurt the environment.

All metal, including paper clips and hanging file folders, must be removed before dropping off documents to shred. Staples can remain on the documents, but all plastic needs to be removed as well. Anything that can’t be torn isn’t allowed.

Find out more information about next week’s Fall Shred Event on the

OIS website

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