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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Sen. Brian Jones has asked Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to halt the potential placements of two convicted sex offenders in an East County home.
The placements in question are the proposed conditional releases of Douglas Badger and Merle Wakefield, both of whom the Department of State Hospitals has recommended be housed in a supervised home on Horizon Hills Drive in the Mt. Helix neighborhood.
Badger, 78, was convicted of sexual assaults dating back to the 1970s, mostly victimizing male hitchhikers, while Wakefield, 64, was convicted of sexual assaults dating back to the 1980s, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.
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BREACH DETECTED The Department of State Hospitals is investigating a data breach at Atascadero State Hospital (pictured) involving the personal information of patients, former patients, and employees. On March 18, the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) announced that an employee with access to Atascadero State Hospital data servers improperly obtained more than 1,400 patient and former patient names, more than 600 employee names, as well as COVID-19 test results and health information related to COVID-19 tracking. On April 5, the department announced that additional data was accessed in the same breach, including Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and employment-related health information for more t
Data was improperly accessed, says ASH
–As part of its ongoing investigation of a data breach at Atascadero State Hospital that was identified on Feb. 25, the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) today announced the discovery of additional data that had been improperly accessed during the same data breach. The additional data consists of personal information including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, date of birth, and health information related to employment, of approximately 1,735 employees and former employees, and 1,217 DSH job applicants who never became DSH employees.
The newly identified data was discovered during the investigation of the same employee who was found to have improperly accessed approximately 1,415 patient and former patient, and 617 employee names, COVID-19 test results, and health information necessary for tracking COVID-19. DSH is continuing its investigation of the data breach and has placed the principal subject of the