Locked out: Thornton Township Assessor no longer able to keep taxpayer info secure

By Melanie Jongsma
The Lansing Journal

“My concern is, we have confidential, sensitive papers that are now in a common area,” said Thornton Township Assessor Cassandra Elston this morning (June 7). When Elston came to work yesterday, she found that the locks on her office door had been changed and her key no longer worked.