[Peace] FYI: email & your rights: Edupage, June 17, 2002 (fwd)

[Alfred Kagan]

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>From: Frederick W Stoss <fstoss at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:8229] SRRT FYI: email & your rights: Edupage, 
>June 17, 2002 (fwd)
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>--On Monday, June 17, 2002, 4:36 PM -0600
>EDUCAUSE at EDUCAUSE.EDU wrote:
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>>  CAMPUS E-MAIL EXPOSED TO PUBLIC SCRUTINY
>>  Many states identify administrators and professors at
>>  public colleges as state employees, potentially exposing
>>  their letters, documents, and e-mail to public scrutiny
>>  under freedom-of-information laws. Some institutions have
>>  begun to update policies to safeguard personal e-mail or
>>  warn professors to be careful what they write.
>>  Open-records laws don't specify clearly whether
>>  professors' research notes, lecture notes, or regular
>>  mail would qualify as public records, but most states
>>  assume that state employees' e-mail messages are public
>>  records, even when the law is ambiguous. Employees at
>>  private colleges can be exposed as well, although not
>>  through open-records laws; a person would need to obtain
>>  a court order or a subpoena, requiring involvement in
>>  litigation against the college.
>>  Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
>>  http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i41/41a03101.htm


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