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Monday, June 30, 2008

Deleted Emails in Texas

This story describes how all the laws in the world don't prevent some local governments in Texas from automatically deleting emails that are supposed to be kept for months or years. This happens even in Texas where the penalty for illegally destroying public records is jail time.