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Year in review: Thousands of SFU keys missing

The 'Thanks for Key-ping Track' Award
SFU keys

It’s not exactly the kind of open-door policy safety and security officials at SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus are shooting for.

An internal safety and security review obtained by the NOW this year revealed 5,014 keys belonging to former employees had not been returned. 

Auditors also identified 275 lost master and sub-master keys (with access to 4,166 doors in 28 buildings).

Officials said the data used went back 50 years, and the issue was more of a record-keeping problem than a security threat, but head of security Mark Lalonde admitted the report was “embarrassing.”