Texts tell tales · 17 March 08
More Sunshine Week: the Statesman had this interesting article about text messages falling under records laws. What might you find on local officials’ texts?
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WASHINGTON — Those supposedly private messages that public officials dash off on their government cell phones to friends and colleagues aren’t necessarily private after all.
Courts, lawyers and states increasingly are treating these typed text messages as public documents subject to the same disclosure laws — including the federal Freedom of Information Act — that apply to e-mails and paper records.
Nick Budnick
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