PHOENIX -- At Allstate Self Storage’s auction Tuesday morning, more than 30,000 files filled with personal information from missing persons cases will be among the items up for bid.

“Every file we have ever worked on, every missing persons case, and there are thousands,” National Center for Missing Adults CEO Kym Pasqualini said. “They contain people’s personal information, there’s Social Security numbers in there.”

The cases files and other items in the centers’ storage units are up for auction because Pasqualini has been unable to pay the $3,800 she owes Allstate Self Storage.

The facility’s managers have refused to turn over the case files.

“We have literally begged to be able to come in and clear all of these belongings out,” she said.

Pasqualini has run the National Center for Missing Adults for 16 years. It is one of the few organizations in America dedicated to finding missing people over age 18.

After spending $250,000 to find missing adults after Hurricane Katrina and a drop in donations due to the economic downturn, Pasqualini was forced to close her doors and put everything into two units at Allstate Self Storage a few years ago.

Pasqualini has sold her house and spent her personal savings to pay the bills, but is now out of money.

Her only hope is that the highest bidder at the auction will give her the case files.

“It’s been a struggle over the last couple of years and this will be the final straw,” she said. The auction is Tuesday at 8 a.m at Allstate Self Storage on Bell Road in Phoenix.