Government
Mar. 7, 2017
Public records stay public, even in private
The California Supreme Court has now held that emails, voicemails and texts related to government business on the private devices and servers of government officials and employees are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. By Gary Schons
Gary Schons
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In 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed over to the State Department some 30,000 emails from her private server, many of which were sought in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by Judicial Watch. Litigation over that request is pending in federal district court. Last year, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided in an unrelated case that documents that otherwise could be consid...
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