Legal professional calls Conway College District’s e-mail coverage egregious

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Ashley Savage has an article in the present day that appears on the Conway College District’s e-mail deletion coverage.

Shortly after Jeff Collum grew to become superintendent, the district started routinely deleting emails after three days except that they had been archived.

John Tull, a lawyer who acquired the Freedom of Data Award from the Arkansas Press Affiliation, advised the newspaper, “In my 38 years of working with the FOIA, [this policy] is essentially the most egregious thumbing of the nostril at transparency and FOIA I’ve ever seen.”

“I don’t consider a court docket would discover such coverage legitimate and topics the board to lawsuits for violation despite the fact that the FOIA doesn’t have a selected retention coverage,” Tull mentioned.

Because the Arkansas Instances has beforehand reported, in August 2021, the month after Collum grew to become superintendent, the district determined to routinely delete emails that had not been archived after 72 hours.

The Democrat-Gazette article additionally famous that one other Arkansas legal professional, Tom Mars, wrote in a Nov. 14 tweet, “The e-mail retention coverage reveals the lengths to which the Conway College District has gone to maintain the general public from understanding the small print of its so-called ‘Christian’ marketing campaign in opposition to trans children.”

In his tweet, Mars added, “What would Jesus do? Fairly positive he wouldn’t be deleting his emails each three days.”

Mars’ reference was to insurance policies the Conway College Board has just lately adopted focusing on transgender college students and adults.

You may read the full Democrat-Gazette article here, though there’s a paywall.

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