Shred Your Paper at ShredFest Saturday

Looking to get rid of paper piles in your house? Want to protect yourself from identity theft by shredding documents with personal information?

The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is hosting ShredFest Saturday morning at in Brookfield. Each vehicle can drop off up to three boxes of paper at the bank, 18200 W. Capitol Dr., from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Identity theft is largely a crime of access to sensitive information, said Randall Hoth, president/CEO of the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau.  “Our goal here is to make the information less accessible and empower people to be their own first line of defense against identity theft.”

The Federal Trade Commission received 2,553 identity theft complaints from Wisconsin residents in 2010. Almost half of those — 1,029 — came from consumers in metropolitan Milwaukee.

For more information, including a records retention schedule and a list of items that should be shredded, go to www.wisconsin.bbb.org/shredfest  or call 414-847-6000.