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New York saw a record number of identity theft claims in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic helped cause financial stress across the state and nation, according to a new report.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli s report Wednesday found identity theft claims more than quadrupled across the country and New York over the last decade, while total claims in the Empire State grew by more than 85% from 2019 to 2020.
Data from the Federal Trade Commission notes identity theft claims in the U.S. doubled from 2019 to 2020. And a compilation of complaints by the FTC found 58,783 identity theft incidents related to COVID-19 from 2020 to March 2021 nationwide, including 3,617 from New York.
ALBANY, N.Y. â Identity thefts in New York surged during the pandemic with more than 67,000 complaints filed statewide in 2020, which was 85 percent more than the previous year and more than four times the annual total from a decade earlier, according to a report released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
The New York City metropolitan area had the highest rate of identity theft reports to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) per capita at 403 reports per 100,000 people, followed by Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown (315) and Rochester (303) metropolitan areas.
âIn the midst of the stresses caused by the pandemic, many New Yorkers also dealt with identity theft last year,â DiNapoli said.
77-year-old woman with dementia missing in Central NY; police seek public’s help
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Canastota, N.Y. ― Canastota police today are seeking the public’s help to try to find a 77-year-old woman reported missing from the village on Friday.
Cheryl Wilkinson has dementia and may need medical attention, police said in an alert issued this afternoon by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The alert is posted on roadside message boards throughout Central New York.
Wilkinson was last seen driving a white 2012 Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck with a plate that reads 94626MB.
She was last seen on North Peterboro Street in the village of Canastota at 11 a.m. Friday, according to police.
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Legislator Godfrey Says Niagara County Needs to Rethink Relationship with Niagara University
By: Staff Reporter
In light of Niagara University’s decision to not allow the Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy graduation ceremony to take place on its campus, Niagara County Legislator David Godfrey said today it may be time to rethink about the relationship between Niagara County and Niagara University.
“To say I am extremely disappointed in the actions of Niagara University is a tremendous understatement,” said Godfrey, chairman of the county’s Community Safety Committee. “The women and men graduating from the Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy deserve our respect, and their accomplishments should be celebrated, not diminished, by being pushed off campus.”