GOLDEN — Information about 2,900 special education students throughout the Jefferson County School District may have been compromised when computer equipment was stolen in a home burglary.
Letters were sent home Monday to inform families that their students’ names, dates of birth, identification numbers and schools were stored on a laptop computer and a jump drive taken Jan. 28 from the Arvada home of a special education technician.
The information had been gathered by the technician at 120 of the district’s 148 schools.
“At some schools, there was one student, and at some there were 100,” District spokeswoman Lynn Setzer said.
Social Security and financial information was not involved. If the student has received district transportation, then information such as parent or guardian name and contact information also may have been on the jump drive.
