Stunning. Professors at STATE UNIVERSITIES are STATE EMPLOYEES using STATE FUNDED computers on STATE FUNDED networks in STATE FUNDED facilities provided for by STATE TAXPAYERS. There's no difference between a state employee working at the secretary of state's office and a STATE UNIVERSITY professor. Both are employed using STATE TAX DOLLARS. Shocking you can type the sentence above and not see that.
“In response to a 2011 court order, the university handed over about 1,800 emails. Another 12,000 emails were withheld because they were deemed exempt from disclosure under a records law provision that protects proprietary research produced by a public university.”
Whether there should be such a law is debatable.
I agree that Mann is obviously much more of an advocate than a researcher.
I assume you will agree that requiring people to scan every sentence of every communication for possible ways it could be misconstrued has a significant chilling effect. That is a cost of totally open records.