The Daily Sentinel: Mesa County officials say they’re reviewing privacy safeguards after accidentally disclosing information about roughly 200 Department of Human Services clients and cases to the local newspaper.

The confidential details were left unredacted, buried within tens of thousands of financial records obtained by The Daily Sentinel through a series of Colorado Open Records Act requests earlier this year. All of the sensitive information came from brief memos attached to DHS employees’ travel reimbursements in 2024 and ‘25, or from transaction records on government purchasing cards for department clients’ hotel rooms, supplies and services bought in 2024.

Some of the notes included only a client’s first initial and last name, along with other info that could more precisely identify them, like the details of which hotels they stayed at on certain dates, or a mileage payment indicating the distance between their home and the department’s office in Grand Junction. Dozens of others went further, spelling out some clients’ full names, case numbers, and home addresses. One included an individual’s exact apartment number.

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