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Government

Apr. 1, 2015

Broadly construe laws requiring openness

In a pending case, our state high court has the opportunity to prevent a Clinton-type email scandal from cropping up right here in California. By John Claassen


By John Claassen


Despite two decades of experience with email and other electronic messaging, our federal, state and local governments still struggle to manage them well. In addition to information security issues - concerns shared among private and public entities - governments have not yet perfected document retention. The twin challenges of document security and retention pose systemic risk to federal, state and local governments alike.


Retention con...

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