Affiliated Computer Services has had access to ICES data for limited purposes since 2007 under FSSA’s 10-year, $1.34 billion contract with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. to privatize and automate welfare intake. ACS is a partner with IBM in the project.
UPDATE: Oct. 16 Affiliated Computer Services is lead by by the former FSSA director Mitch Roob. Roob is a good friend of Indiana Governor Mitchell Daniels Howey Politics writes a good article about the interchangeable relationship of Mitch Roob, Mitchell Daniels and Stephen Goldsmith:
Now, flash forward to 2005 when Daniels assumed office and Roob headed FSSA. Roob would tell HPI in those days that the three major figures - Daniels, Roob and Goldsmith - had simply “traded positions.” Daniels became the CEO; Roob headed FSSA; and Goldsmith became the adviser, as he currently is with Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, multiple sources have told HPI.
The other element to this picture is that between the Goldsmith mayoral administration and the Daniels governorship, Roob worked for Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc., which was eventually included in the IBM welfare deal. From the beginning of this affiliation, critics abounded. They pointed out that Texas had pulled the plug on what the Indianapolis Star described as a “similar welfare privatization effort after thousands of people lost benefits they deserved.”
Privatize KIng Daniels attempts to sell off government service to support the private business of his friends.
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