Court: Officials can’t use private email accounts to evade records laws – IOTW Report

Court: Officials can’t use private email accounts to evade records laws

TheHill:

[…] “If a department head can deprive the citizens of their right to know what his department is up to by the simple expedient of maintaining his departmental emails on an account in another domain, that purpose is hardly served,” Sentelle wrote.  

“It would make as much sense to say that the department head could deprive requestors of hard-copy documents by leaving them in a file at his daughter’s house and then claiming that they are under her control,” he said.   more

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