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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
DiNapoli's office does not have
an email purge policy, and has «no intention» of following Cuomo's policy, Freeman said.
Not exact matches
(For the record, while the AG's office did adopt the
purge policy, the state comptroller's office did not, and, according to his office, neither storage nor slowness caused by too many
emails clogging the system has never been a problem).
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.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration — which the governor pledged would be the most transparent in state history — has quietly adopted
policies that allow it to
purge the
emails of tens of thousands of state employees, cutting off a key avenue for understanding and investigating state government.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
While Cuomo officials have suggested that the
purge policy is a technical necessity to consolidate
email systems, researcher Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said, «There's no technological reason that New York can't maintain these records indefinitely.»
They say that the
policy costs them time because to abide by it they are forced to weigh the State's monumentally large
email retention
policy against the
purge policy, and then ferret out and save important
emails.
Capital first reported in February that the
policy's full implementation resulted in the
purge of thousands of
emails.
Capital first reported last month that the
policy's implementation resulted in the
purge of thousands of
emails from employees» accounts.
Capital first reported last month that the full implementation of the administration's
policy has resulted in a
purge of thousands of older
emails at various state agencies.