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This week The Nerve, a new website from the South Carolina Policy Council, reported that the South Carolina has a serious lack of transparency regarding state emails.
Stimulus funding, budget vetoes and spending transparency are among an array of state business South Carolina public officials discussed through private email correspondence during the past year.
But despite potential problems involved when government isn’t conducted in the open, South Carolina has no prohibition against using private emails for public business. In addition, many state agencies don’t even have email retention policies in place to establish preservation standards for email and instant messages sent or received on state servers.
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