Posted on 02/19/2009 2:17:54 AM PST by james500
The decision by Mayor Ray Nagin's administration to delete virtually every e-mail sent and received by Nagin last year was not only an apparent violation of the state public-records law, it also flies in the face of a detailed policy recommendation prepared less than a year ago by the mayor's own technology office.
A memo titled "Proposed Alterations of E-mail Policies, " dated May 13, is posted on the city's Web site. The document offers a long list of suggestions, including sections devoted to e-mail retention and the recovery of deleted e-mail via the use of backup systems.
One change the technology office said it "strongly recommends": that the city maintain backup tapes from its e-mail server, remove them every three months and store the data at an offsite location.
"No effort will be made to remove e-mail from the offsite backup tapes, " the memo continues.
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None of the recommendations appears to have been followed, based on comments made by an attorney for the city during a Tuesday court hearing on a lawsuit filed by WWL-TV. The station is seeking copies of Nagin's e-mail and information from his 2008 calendar.
Nagin's press office did not respond Wednesday to questions about why the policy was never implemented.
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Blaming the e-mail dump on storage problems left some technology and legal professionals scratching their heads.
"Lack of storage is an easily solvable problem, " said Stephen Segari, a senior developer at Carrollton Technology Partners, a New Orleans technology firm. "It's not an issue of money or time. If you say you don't have space, it's an excuse, not a reason."
For about $100, Segari said, he can install a 1-terabyte hard drive that is capable of storing more than 107 million typical e-mail messages.
Hey Ray, this is Kwame. Here be a tip.....
Watch out for the next headline "suspicious fire at a tape storage facility".
"Oops! Did I say ALL e-mails?"
"I meant ALL, BUT MINE!"
Starting to see a common thread with these critters; they’re all crooked and do not mind flaunting their tactics in public. It has almost become a badge of honor; he’ll probably be honored at the whitehouse for his bravery.
Thanks for adding the link. Apparently, I skipped it.
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