I’m in Chicago this week,attending NEDCC‘s Persistence of Memory conference,and I hope to share some thoughts about that soon,once I’ve digested things a bit.
Until then,a quick article about public records and a recent ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court from the Columbus Dispatch. A brief snippet:
Even deleted e-mail messages are public records if they deal with official business,the Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
In a unanimous ruling,justices ordered commissioners in Seneca County to scour their computer hard drives for e-mail messages requested by a Toledo newspaper last year that had been deleted.
The decision was a rare legal victory for public-records advocates in Ohio.
Full article- Deleted emails are still public records.