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Governor Sued For Deleting Email
from the bad-governor dept
The Governor of Utah has been sued by news organizations for deleting his email. Apparently, he deletes all of his email after three days. The news organizations say that he is destroying public records. The legal issue is really whether email is a document or a transient conversation like a telephone call. This, of course, is the same reason why President Bush had to stop using email entirely. I think this is silly. Email is an effective way to communicate - and if we're going to handcuff our elected officials into making email useless, we're doing more harm than good. Anyway, if I were an elected official (and hopefully, I never will be), I would just get myself a Hotmail or Yahoo mail account and use that most of the time.
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simple solution
set a legal presedence that an email digitally signed with an encryption algorithm is a legal document, all else is a conversation.
But what about ROT26 then? :)
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Mike for Prez!
Please Mike, don't scare us like that!
:)
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Seems stupid...
He's not really destroying the email though. I'm sure it's somewhere that could be found. Cast your mind back to DOJ vs Microsoft for examples of email that didn't dissappear...
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