Comments on: Governor’s Office Still Gets It Wrong On E-Mail Retention

By: AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest

AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

You shouldn’t be surprised that people on Slashdot would question Perry’s credentials for speaking at a video game industry expo. Like President Bush, Perry can’t figure out a way to properlyarchive his emails for longer than a week. They just don’t have the server space, he claims. And this guy grasps technology well enough that he should be treated as an inspired speaker at a video game convention? Clearly, his administration could easily sort out how to archive all staff

By: Open Records

Open Records — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Carnival has been cited as the information source that led to the open records request heard ’round the country. Without further ado: Let’s start with a good blog post on that Texas e-mail situation:Governor’s office still gets it wrong on e-mail retention. Up north in Pennsylvania, the bloggers at Pennsylvania Pundits are keeping on top of why it is not a good idea to exclude e-mail from open records legislation. Dropping south again, Jean in Missouri asks a question that almost any FOIAer has

By: KVUE Political Junkie

KVUE Political Junkie — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The Purge project aims to take a look at the email retention policies of state agencies and offices beyond the Governor’s, but the Governor’s office policy of deleting every seven days continues to drive additional questions. See Kuff andVincefor some of their concerns. The Star-Telegram reports the policy will stay in effect:Just asking for government records triggers a requirement that they be preserved, so Perry has temporarily halted the automatic erasures to give staffers time to