I was never given a reasonable answer to the question 'why?' Mostly I got "We don't have the storage capacity" (everyone was limited in space for their email directories- still is, at least in the Health and Human Service Commission). Truly, it may have been policy for HHSC only, but we were given the impression that it was new State-wide policy.

As for your second question, silly man - they're the government...they MAKE the rules, they don't have to follow them or anything.


>Your description of email retention on a State government level seems ridiculous. Not calling you a liar or anything, but I just cannot imagine that being the case. Why isn't the government held to same email retention standards as publicly traded companies?
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>>If the Feds work anywhere like State gov. does, you're expected to archive your email to your harddrive - and the emails are purged off the central server to reclaim space - and you are expected to purge anything older than 2 years so that open records requests don't bite you on the butt. So, while it does seem rather convenient, it is feasible that the only copy left was on the harddrive that crashed.
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>>>Hope they subpoena some I.T. managers to break through this hogwash
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>>>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-lost-lois-lerners-emails-in-tea-party-probe/