Judge orders end to destruction of Nagin e-mail
From Sunshine Review
February 17, 2009.
[edit] Judge's order
Judge Rose Ledet has ordered the Ray Nagin administration to stop destroying emails. Ledet learned in February 2009 that the Nagin administration had destroyed "virtually all" of the e-mails sent and received by Nagin in 2008 as well as and much of the information on his 2008 calendar, in apparent violation of the Louisiana Public Records Act.[1]
Information that the records had been destroyed came to light as the result of an open records lawsuit filed against the Nagin administration by WWL-TV news anchor Lee Zurik, who filed a records request for e-mail and calendar information in January 2009.
Mary Ellen Roy, an attorney for the station, told Ledet that to date, the administration has provided only 15 of Nagin's e-mails and no part of his scheduling calendar. Nagin sends and receives between 50 and 100 e-mails daily, according to information provided to WWL's attorneys by the administration.
[edit] References
- ↑ Times Picayune, "Mayor Ray Nagin's 2008 e-mails deleted in violation of records law", February 17, 2009
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