By
NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The annual shred event with the consumer protection division of the Kansas Attorney General's office is at the Kansas State Fairgrounds on Thursday.
"We do it to mark National Consumer Protection Week," said Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. "We do it to provide a direct service to Kansans who want to clean out those file cabinets and come out and have those old unneeded records destroyed. We also do it to remind people how important it is all year around to safeguard our own individual personal information."
Thursday afternoon is the time to bring your documents.
"We're going to be in Hutch on Thursday, the 10th of March from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. out at gate 3 at the State Fairgrounds," Schmidt said. "We invite anybody to come out and bring up to three bags or boxes of old documents and have them safely and professionally destroyed."
The theme of National Consumer Protection Week for this year is how fraud affects every community.