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Tag: Personal email accounts government computers

Michigan: Duggan, officials use private e-mail for city business

Posted on July 20, 2015

City of Detroit officials, including Mayor Mike Duggan, sometimes use private e-mail accounts to conduct the public’s business — a practice that concerns open records experts and one that has hounded Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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#FOISummit brief: Digital Dodges and the Email Sleight of Hand

Posted on May 18, 2013

Robert Becker, Lori Mince and Joey Senat discussed best practices and best outcomes when issues related to email and digital communications are legislated or litigated in states. The panel was moderated by Scott Sternberg.

Please find the speakers' biographies here.

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The government can’t hide behind Gmail

Posted on April 24, 2013

From San Diego City Beat:

I love public records laws like a firefighter loves his ax. I love the heft of the federal Freedom of Information Act (or the California Public Records Act) when I slam it into the door of the establishment. And I love it when it gets sharpened.

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FDA email surveillance lawsuit raises complex issues of personal email accounts and government computers

Posted on January 31, 2012

From Washington Post's Checkpoint Washington:

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