Public officials' e-mail open -- but you can't always see it
From Sunshine Review
May 2, 2009
[edit] Public officials' e-mail open -- but you can't always see it
"A state open records request has York Township looking into options for how e-mails are received and sent by its commissioners, because some e-mails may be in a private company's files and are not open to public review.
In a March appeal involving township Commissioner Philip W. Briddell, the state's Office of Open Records said that e-mails in a private company's files are public if they include correspondence by a public official. But the open records office said it can't force a municipality to search those files, and can't force a company to produce the e-mails."
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