I know at an ex-employer of mine, we chose to use an outsourced shredding company mostly because of legal reasons. I'm not entirely sure how it worked, but sinc

I know at an ex-employer of mine, we chose to use an outsourced shredding company mostly because of legal reasons. I'm not entirely sure how it worked, but since we were handling PHI (patient health information), we had certain rules we had to abide by, and were liable if this data got out. Apparently, the outsourced shredding company insured us against some of these liabilities. I imagine police departments have similar situations.