Posted on 03/06/2015 2:51:04 PM PST by Theoria
Automatically deleting email after 90 days could lead to the accidental disposal of important records, the head of New York's Committee on Open Government told Capital, as the Cuomo administration presses ahead with its controversial new policy.
Robert Freeman, who has worked for the committee since it was founded in 1974, said there shouldn't be a fixed time governing when records are saved or discarded.
As Capital reported, the Cuomo administration last week fully implemented a policy of deleting any email not proactively saved for retention after 90 days. The result was a mass purge of messages in the inboxes of rank-and-file employees.
“With respect to a records retention policy, my belief is the nature of the communication and its significance should determine how long it should be kept, and there likely should not be an arbitrary dividing line between retention and disposal,” Freeman said. “In 2015, in the era of electronic communications—particularly email—often all of us receive email communications that are indeed significant, which likely warrant a retention period of greater than 90 days. Realistically, too, let's face it: mistakes are made. Sometimes if there is an automatic obliteration of records, we may lose materials that are indeed important, that have historical value, and again, there may be situations in which we cannot necessarily predict the significance of the record.”
The official state policy was adopted in June 2013, but gubernatorial administrations had been automatically purging their inboxes going back six years, aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo say.
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Everything those in government do outside of national security should be public and records and archives kept. These records must kept and secured including all communication even involving big security issues. In a free country this is not even debatable.
Trust in government at all levels has all but been destroyed. Massive cracks in the foundation continue to widen.
At this rate it won’t be long until the U.S. Constitution is completely deleted.
Agree. No question, it’s being circumvented and subverted as a matter of routine.
And the Albany(NY)) Hearst “newspaper” the TIMES UNION is doing everything it can to protect Benito Cuomo for the truth that Preet Bharara has exposed.
Have you ever noticed how much Andrew Cuomo and the late dictator of Libya, Moammar Gaddafi, look like “separated at birth” jokes?
Is this andrew trying to out flack Hillary.
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