[SATLUG] email retention

[Brad Knowles]

On 5/25/07, Leif Johnson wrote:

>  I got wind of a proposed law or (PIA) to mandate public agencies to
>  retain copies of all emails entering their networks.

I just read more about this at <http://tinyurl.com/yv9qc3>:

| E-discovery rules add summer IT work for schools
| Districts face heavy workload to comply with new federal regs
| By Brian Fonseca
|
| June 07, 2007 (Computerworld) -- School districts nationwide face an
| especially difficult IT assignment this summer: to create systems that
| ensure compliance with new federal electronic discovery regulations.
|
| September 2005 updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)
| require that electronic documents -- including e-mail and perhaps even
| instant messaging logs -- be available as evidence in civil court cases.
| Observers note that widespread enforcement of the rules will likely begin
| by the end of 2007, a year later than expected (see "New e-discovery rules
| go into effect in December ").
|
| Jay Attiya, K-12 network manager for the Middletown Township School
| District in Monmouth County, N.J., said that archiving all electronic
| data could prove especially difficult for small IT organizations in
| regional or local school districts.
|
| "By and large, in the past, [FRCP] rules really didn't pertain to [K-12
| school districts like] they did to the Enron's of the world," Attiya said.
| "But now we are being pointed in that direction, so we have to take steps
| to be prepared. You have to be able to show [a federal court] that you
| can produce everything." 
|
| On the advice of the school district's attorney, Middletown school
| administrators earlier this year ordered that all bidirectional e-mail
| communication be stored, retrievable and archived for at least three
| years, Attiya said.

Wow.  Scary stuff.

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Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>, Consultant & Author
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