Sentences with phrase «email purge»

The Cuomo administration has defended its now much - maligned 90 - day email purge policy in part by saying it's really noting new, insisting it dates back — at least in the executive chamber — to 2007, which was the first full year of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's short - lived tenure.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has decided to scrap the controversial 90 - day email purge policy put in place by his predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is now taking considerable heat from good government advocates, editorial boards and state lawmakers for instituting the policy across all executive agencies.

The fact that the governor's executive chamber began 90 - day email purges in 2007 — before Cuomo took office — is no excuse.

While engaged in the daily email purge required to keep our system able to send and receive electronic missives, I came across a fundraising appeal sent out by Democratic Senator - in - waiting Terry Gipson last week that was forwarded by a helpful reader.

(See Cuomo Administration Begins Large - Scale Email Purges in Capital NY.)

According to a number of state workers who spoke to Gotham Gazette on the condition of anonymity, regular work habits have been disrupted by the policy that sees emails purged after three months.

In the wake of AG Eric Schneiderman's announcement that he is suspending the controversial 90 - day email purge policy put in place by his predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the governor's spokeswoman announced he will «convene a meeting» with representatives of the Legislature and fellow statewide elected officials to come up with a uniform email and FOIL policy that applies to all of them.

AG Eric Schneiderman raised eyebrows and won praise yesterday after he decided to suspend the controversial 90 - day email purge policy that has existed in his office since at least 2007 (or maybe even longer) and directed his counsel to come up with a new email retention policy.

DiNapoli's office does not have an email purge policy, and has «no intention» of following Cuomo's policy, Freeman said.

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.

The 90 day email purge is an effective management policy.

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.

Memo dating back to 1st year of Spitzer admin backs up Cuomo admin claim that email purge policy existed in the executive chamber during 2007.

After legislators earlier proposed a new law to retain state workers» emails and AG Eric Schneiderman announced he's suspending the email purge policy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said it would seek a uniform policy in state agencies and in the Legislature on email retention and FOIL.

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.

The NY Post excoriates Cuomo for his administration's email purge, and accuses him of trying to hide something.

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.

The TU pans Cuomo's 90 - day email purge policy, calling it «so antithetical to transparency, so Orwellian in its name, that it could rightly be called, «Preservation is destruction.»»

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.

In Albany, the email policy has drawn loud criticism in recent weeks from government watchdog groups as well as some lawmakers, who have proposed legislation to stop the email purges.

Internal memos from the state AG's office show the email purge policy dates back to at least 2005, and was re-implemented as recently as May 2014 after a three - year break caused by an email provider switch.

The governor's chief information officer argued that the email purge was a cost - saving measure aimed at «making government work better.»

But he's frequently been criticized for actions that hinder the state's Freedom of Information Law like an email purge that was briefly implemented last year.

The ball is in the governor's court, he's the one who ordered the emails purged.»