Thoughts 02 Jul 2007 11:21 am
NV ID theft apparently ok
Nevada is second in the nation, led only by Arizona in ID thefts.
So you can imagine how people feel when they think that someone else is using their ID and all they get when they call is an answering machine.
By the way: The State of Nevada refers to this 877 number as a hotline.
The State says the matter is caused by a lack of funding, and that they were going to send cards to the 300 odd folks who had the patients to wait through the bullshit message, just as soon as the printer was fixed.
A story in the Sun on Tuesday revealed that the program had not helped a single person of the 300 who had applied since it began in January 2006.
Once again –Lack of funding.
According to the Las Vegas Sun:
Keith Munro, chief of staff at the attorney general’s office, said Wednesday that up to 40 of the 300 people who have applied to the program would soon get letters saying their applications have been processed.
The cards themselves, however, would still take some time - because the printer is broken. Munro said he hoped the printer would be fixed soon, and added that he aims to have work on all 300 applications completed by the end of July.
Liz Jeckewicz of Las Vegas may be among the newest members of the waiting-for-a-call-back club.
She wound up leaving a message. “I felt like it was useless to talk to a machine,” the 72-year-old said.
Undaunted, she got the Las Vegas number for the attorney general. A woman answered the phone. And how did she try to help Jeckewicz?
“She gave me the 877 number.”
Welcome to Nevada, the state who’s government is run by… sorry, when I called to ask, I was given an 877 number and told to leave a message.
The Legislature and the Governor come up with grandiose schemes but haven’t got a clue about how to actually implement said schemes.
They fund their pet projects, but God help you if you should happen to be the average Joe, with a mundane problem and no money, and would like someone in this state to do what they say they’ll do.
In the matter of this problem there may be a change.
On Ziff Davis Government they blogged about this unfortunate state of affairs, and if there’s anything a politician or political appointee hates, it’s the world finding out just how incompetent they really are.