Of course, we all remember the governor's exasperating 90 -
day email deletion policy for state agencies that resulted in massive destruction of public records three years ago.
The transparency of the executive branch has come under increased scrutiny since it began implementing a 90 - day
email deletion policy last month.
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.
An AG office source confirmed Schneiderman opted to keep
the email deletion policy put in place by Cuomo.
A postscript from Liz B. to this excellent report by Mr. Fink... remember the last FOIL summit — into which the governor was more or less forced due to the uproar over
his email deletion policy — didn't go so well.
They say the 90 day
email deletion policy was actually implemented in 2007, under former Governor Eliot Spitzer.
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.
New York State's
email deletion policy is out of step with best practices in the Federal government, in other states like North Carolina and Massachusetts, with good government advocates, and even with the New York State Archives's own recommendations from 2010, which stated «Purging all emails after a defined time period is not an acceptable retention and disposition strategy.»
This email deletion policy was implemented in June 2013, and the State's own memos prove it.
At this particular moment, with such low trust in Albany, there's no excuse for
an email deletion policy.
Last week, the administration launched a two - pronged attack in response to criticism of its 90 - day
email deletion policy and over a push for increased financial disclosure by administration employees and their significant others.
«The governor's
email deletion policy is like a wrecking ball smashing transparency and public confidence in government,» he said.
When the Crown Prosecution Service announced in December 2015 that there would be no further criminal action on phone hacking, it said it had considered evidence of email deletion and decided that there were «legitimate reasons for companies to have
an email deletion policy... In this case, there is no evidence to suggest that email deletion was undertaken in order to pervert the course of justice.»
Acting on behalf of 17 people suing the publisher of the now - defunct News of the World and the Sun over alleged phone hacking, David Sherborne claimed on Monday there were documents, emails and meeting agendas that showed senior executives including Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks pursued
an email deletion policy that removed «emails that could be unhelpful in future litigation in which News International could be a defendant».
It is the governor that should lead by example by issuing an executive order reversing the 90 day
email deletion policy and instead follow the lead of the federal government, which requires archiving of emails for seven (7) years.
In New York, the state legislature is moving rapidly to undo Governor Andrew Cuomo's 90 - day
email deletion policy, reports Thomas Kaplan for The New York Times.