By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — As part of the commemoration of Consumer Protection Week, there is an event where documents can be safely destroyed coming to Hutchinson Thursday.
"We partner at the Attorney General's office along with a professional document shredding company and provide a chance for people to clean out those personal files or bring in those old bank statements they don't need anymore and have them safely and securely shredded."
The purpose is to remind consumers to shred such documents when they can to prevent identity theft and to remind them of the office's consumer protection mission.
"We have a very large consumer protection operation at the Kansas Attorney General's Office," Schmidt said. "It's the biggest consumer protection shop in the state. We handle somewhere between three and four thousand consumer complaints from Kansans every year from every county all over the state. It's everything from complaints about door to door peddlers to telemarketers to violations of the lemon law, you name it."
The event in Hutchinson is fairly straightforward.
"It's between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., so that people have a chance to come over their noon hour, if that's what their schedule requires," Schmidt said. "We'll be set up out at Gate 3 at the Fairgrounds, that's West 23rd and North Main Street. It will be the long line of cars and the large truck and a lot of people out helping people unload those documents."
Limit yourself to three small bags or boxes of documents to be shredded on Thursday.