Deleting all government emails violates Pennsylvania policy

Earlier this month, acting state Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq cited a department practice of purging emails each evening as the reason her department released only five emails for Ron Tomalis, the governor’s special adviser on higher education, during his first year in the position.

Turns out the practice of purging all emails each night violates the department’s policy on record retention, a policy based on state record retention laws.

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