Inside the former Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center sat piles of cardboard boxes , turning the former psychiatric hospital into a makeshift storage facility . The files contained within run the gamut of both state employees and Brisbane patients , including personal information such as Social Security numbers , medical history and banking information . The only problem ? The door to the Brisbane Center , which closed in 2005 , has been left wide open at least on various occasions over the past month . According to a former employee of the hospital who requested anonymity , doors to at least one building at the Route 524 complex were left wide open on multiple occasions over the past few months . Inside , the employee found boxes labeled " payroll , " " timesheets " and " medical . " Some documents contained private personal information , including Social Security information . Some boxes were tagged to be destroyed in years as far away as 2045 . Others were left there despite destruction dates as long ago as 2002 . " I just ca n't believe they cleaned it out and left those things with nobody watching , " the employee said . " It 's very uncomfortable thinking that my information is out there for somebody to take . In this age , when everyone 's concerned about identity theft , it seems ridiculous that boxes should just be out there for anyone to stumble upon . " The state Department of Children and Families have removed the boxes from the Brisbane center and transported them to a secure location , where spokesman Ernest Landante said officials would " determine the circumstances under which the boxes were placed where they were found . " " We are actively investigating the matter and the circumstances under which the boxes were stored and discovered , " Landante said in an email . " The department takes seriously the proper safeguarding of sensitive information and we are taking every step in this matter to determine whether the information has been misused . " The Brisbane Center was the state 's only adolescent psychiatric hospital until 2005 . The center was the subject of a damning Department of Children and Families report that detailed frequent suicide attempts and alleged that patients did n't receive more than one hour of individual therapy each week . The hospital was ordered closed when officials began restructuring the state 's child welfare system . For much of its history , the facility was run by the state Department of Human Services . It was placed under control of the DCF shortly before it closed and the Treasury Department afterward . ;