Month: March 2016

Sporting KC acquires money from NY club in exchange for international roster spot

Sporting Kansas City announced Wednesday that the club has acquired targeted allocation money from New York City FC in exchange for a 2016 international roster spot.

Targeted allocation money allows MLS clubs to further invest in their roster outside of the player salary budget. Targeted allocation money may be used in four ways:

• Clubs may use the funds to sign a new player, provided his salary and acquisition costs are more than the maximum salary budget.
• Clubs may re-sign an existing player, provided he is earning more than the maximum salary budget.
• Clubs may buy down the budget charge of an existing Designated Player (no longer making that player a DP), provided the club concurrently signs a new Designated Player at an investment equal to or greater than the player he is replacing.
• Clubs may trade their targeted allocation money to another club.
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In 2016, a total of 160 international roster spots are divided among the 20 MLS clubs. These spots are tradable in full season increments, such that some clubs may have more than eight and some clubs may have fewer than eight. There is no limit on the number of international roster spots on each club’s roster.

The following players occupy international spots on Sporting Kansas City’s current roster: Nuno Andre Coelho, Jimmy Medranda, Soni Mustivar, Jordi Quintilla, Diego Rubio and Daniel Salloi.

Topeka business fined for dumping dental records

A business that dumped more than 900 files containing unredacted personal information of its customers and others will pay a hefty fine to settle claims that it violated Kansas consumer privacy laws, Attorney General Derek Schmidt said today.

In late March 2014, business files were discovered in an unsecured dumpster outside Central Regional Dental Testing Service, Inc., located at 1725 S.W. Gage Blvd. in Topeka. The files contained personal information about persons working with the business to obtain licensure as dentists or dental hygienists as well as about the patients of those persons. The files contained names, social security numbers, birthdates, addresses, medical history, x-rays and other personal information, according to a consent judgment filed in Shawnee County District Court.

After being alerted to the unsecured documents, the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division secured them so the personal information was not exposed to potential identity thieves.

“Kansas law imposes a duty to properly dispose of customers’ personal information when business files are no longer to be retained,” Schmidt said. “Dumping sensitive records in an unsecured trash receptacle, where people’s personal information is readily exposed, does not constitute proper disposal.”

To settle the attorney general’s allegations, the company will pay a $70,000 civil penalty to the State of Kansas and also will reimburse the attorney general’s investigation costs. It also will pay the cost of properly destroying the records under supervision of the attorney general’s office. The consent judgment requiring this outcome was approved yesterday in Shawnee County District Court by Judge Rebecca Crotty.

Schmidt noted this is the second “document-dump” case involving improper disposal of paper records his office has prosecuted in recent years. In 2011, LS Management, Inc., in Wichita, the management corporation for Lone Star Steakhouse, settled similar allegations by paying a $200,000 fine. That case involved thousands of employee personnel files containing sensitive personal information.

“Identity theft is a serious national problem, including in Kansas,” Schmidt said. “The best way to address identity theft is to avoid it by properly securing personal identifying information before the identity thieves can get hold of it.”