How Did Sacramento Student's Confidential Information Get Sent To The Wrong Family?

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A mother is looking for answers after she says sensitive and private information about another student ended up in her hands.

Sacramento City Unified School District officials admit they made a terrible clerical mistake when confidential documents were found in another student's school folder.

Lynne Booker says mixed in with her daughter's records were the official school documents of a troubled child living in a highly dysfunctional home and failing in school.

"I was upset, shocked and had to calm down thinking they were talking about my child," she said. "I don't even know this child."

Nine pages of explicit details of behavioral problems and academic struggles and an uncaring parent refusing to intervene.

"He doesn't make an effort. He doesn't seek help," she said.

The school records indicate the child attends California Middle School in Sacramento's Land Park

"They're careless with another student's records," she said.

Booker says she got the documents last week when she asked school officials if she could review her eighth grader's records. When she got home, that's when she found the sensitive documents tucked away in her daughter's folder.

"If I was the parent of that child I wouldn't want the parent of another child to have access to my child's file regardless of how good or bad it is," she said.

District spokesman Gabe Ross says the district made a terrible mistake and is now investigating.

"We don't have any evidence of any kind of systemic or district wide issue of security with student information," he said. "Certainly we take the privacy and security of our student information extraordinarily serious."

But Booker remains concerned.

"How do I know my child's file is not out there?" she said.

She plans to return the document's to her daughter's school.