«We have a 90 -
day email policy that Spitzer put in place.
«The chamber's 90 -
day email policy began under the Spitzer administration, was ended last year at the direction of the governor, and never extended to SUNY.
Not exact matches
Vynamic, a successful healthcare consultancy in Philadelphia, created a
policy it calls «zmail,» where
email is discouraged between 10 pm and 7 am during the week, and all
day on weekends.
That would mean this
policy was established under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was elected in 2006 and knew a little something about the power of an
email trail from his
days in the AG's office.
Spitzer, whose former top aides have (anonymously) disputed that a
policy permanently deleting
emails after a 90 -
day period ever existed.
«Consistent with that commitment, he has decided to suspend, effective immediately, the
policy that was first put in place in the Attorney General's office in 2007 of automatically deleting most office
emails after 90
days.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press office is busy downplaying the governor's controversial 90 -
day email purge
policy, saying the practice has been in place in the executive chamber — albeit not enforced across executive agencies — since 2007.
Earlier today, Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell and Sen. Liz Krueger, both Manhattan Democrats, introduced their highly anticipated bill that wold create an
email retention
policy for state government and effectively block the 90 -
day purge.
The Cuomo administration is moving forward with an automatic deletion
policy for
emails after 90
days.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces criticism for a 90 -
day email deletion
policy being enacted, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was cool to the idea of submitting the Legislature to the state's Freedom of Information Law.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new 90 -
day email deletion
policy for all state agencies is being met with widespread disapproval.
The event was first announced in March after Cuomo took criticism for the state moving forward with an
email retention
policy that deletes messages after 90 -
days that are not saved.
And another former Spitzer official questioned (again, via
email) how that could be if the 90 -
day email purge
policy had existed at the time.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been getting some bipartisan criticism from state lawmakers over an
email policy that erases all electronic correspondence of state employees after 90
days.
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has now fully implemented a
policy of automatically deleting
emails of rank - and - file state workers that are more than three months old, resulting in an effective purge of thousands of messages in recent
days.
Three
days prior, I sent around a confirmation
email with the event details, a briefing paper stuffed with
policy ideas and some rather unkind comments about the government's position.
Assemblyman Dan Stec, a Republican from the southern Adirondacks, has signed on to an Assembly bill mandating the state keep
emails for at least seven years, which would reverse a Cuomo administration
policy of automatically deleting messages after 90
days.
ALBANY — A Democratic state senator says she will introduce a bill to overturn the Cuomo administration's
policy of automatically deleting
emails after 90
days.
The interview was precipitated by a «transparency summit» sponsored by the governor and the announcement that his administration was revising a
policy that had lead to many state
emails being deleted after 90
days.
After a series of Democratic scandals in the New York state legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is instituting a
policy to have the
emails of state employees automatically deleted after 90
days.
They say the 90
day email deletion
policy was actually implemented in 2007, under former Governor Eliot Spitzer.
He landed a clean hit on the Cuomo administration last week when he announced, in contrast to Cuomo, that he would suspend a questionable
policy of automatically deleting
emails in his office after 90
days.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling for a new
email retention
policy for state leaders following criticism of his administration's practice of purging
emails after 90
days.
The Utica Observer - Dispatch is encouraged by Cuomo's decision to hold a summit on the state's FOIL and
email policy, but thinks he should follow Schneiderman's lead and immediately suspend the 90 -
day email purge
policy.
Paterson said he was motivated to write his letter after reading about the proposals introduced today by members of the Senate and Assembly that would block the governor's controversial 90 -
day email purge
policy and establish an up to seven - year retention
policy based on the system already in place in the federal government.
Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell plans to introduce a bill that would change the Cuomo administration's
policy of automatically deleting
emails after 90
days if they are not manually marked for retention.
---------------------------------------------------- 2) Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was «misleading and unkind and inaccurate» to say the state has a
policy of automatically deleting most
emails after 90
days.
Senate Democrats tweaked Cuomo again this past week, with Manhattan Sen. Liz Krueger announcing plans to introduce a bill that would block the administration's 90 -
day email purge
policy.
Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger on Monday criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration for pursuing an
email retention
policy that deletes messages after 90
days while simultaneously calling for state lawmakers to reveal more information on their outside business interests.
Cuomo said it was «misleading and unkind and inaccurate» to say the state has a
policy of automatically deleting most
emails after 90
days.
The letter, sent by Cuomo's incoming counsel Alphonso David and first reported by the New York Daily News, continues the governor's strategy of going on offense to respond to a push by legislators and good - government groups to suspend an administration
policy of automatically deleting
emails after 90
days.
That's because the governor's office until May 2015 had a
policy that automatically deleted all
emails after 90
days unless they were deliberately saved.
Sources said that state university entities now subject to the federal probe were not covered by the automatic 90 -
day email deletion
policy, though it's not clear what the retention
policy at the time was for them.
Today, a Siena College poll of New York State found that most New Yorkers are aware of Governor Cuomo's
email policy, and Siena's press release further notes that «by an overwhelming margin, 80 - 16 percent, voters say state
emails should be retained significantly longer than 90
days, including more than three - quarters of voters from every region, party, gender, race, religion, age.»
But that turned out to be a flimsy explanation when an internal Administration document surfaced that stated that the «90 -
day email retention
policy was adopted by the State in June 2013.»
The Department of Health («the Department») is transitioning to a new 90 -
day email retention
policy for all staff.
Today, a Siena College poll of New York State found that most New Yorkers are aware of Governor Cuomo's
email policy, and Siena's press release further notes that «by an overwhelming margin, 80 - 16 percent, voters say state
emails should be retained significantly longer than 90
days, including more than three - quarters of voters from every region, -LSB-...]
New York State's
policy of deleting
emails after 90
days has been around for years, but it's making news this week because all state agencies have completed their transition to one centralized
email system.
The Governor's change to a 90
day retention
policy had the beneficial effect of forcing state employees to actually respond to their backlog of
email before they lost it.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's new 90 -
day email deletion
policy for all state agencies is being met with widespread disapproval.
«To have a
policy of deleting
emails after 90
days sends the exact wrong message and is extremely tone deaf to the problems state government is facing.
On Friday - the Friday of Memorial
Day weekend - Gov. Andrew Cuomo will host a summit on
email retention
policy.
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration missed a self - imposed deadline to examine its
policy of automatically deleting
emails after 90
days, drawing fire from a good - government advocate, and a fresh promise of action from the governor's new counsel.
That promise came on March 12, as state lawmakers began advancing bills to upend a state
policy that automatically deletes employee
emails after 90
days if they are not proactively saved.
«When Senator Krueger and I introduced our bill on this issue back at the beginning of March, it was clear that the executive branch
policy of automatically deleting unsaved
emails after only 90
days needed to end immediately.
As Capital reported, the Cuomo administration last week fully implemented a
policy of deleting any
email not proactively saved for retention after 90
days.
ALBANY — Automatically deleting
email after 90
days could lead to the accidental disposal of important records, the head of New York's Committee on Open Government told Capital, as the Cuomo administration presses ahead with its controversial new
policy.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reversed a
policy that would have resulted in all
emails by state officials and New York employees being deleted after 90
days.
Unfortunately, in Albany, a very dark cloud persists: The Cuomo Administration's
policy of requiring the elimination of
emails after 90
days.
Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo's director of communications, said in her first official statement on the matter that a state
policy of automatically deleting
emails after 90
days originated in the administration of Eliot Spitzer.