Do text messages from federal officials belong in FOIA records? - Washington Times he is testing the limits of federal open-records laws by going after texts, which some analysts said could be a new loophole in the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). “No text messages have apparently ever been turned over by EPA<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/>in response to FOIA and congressional oversight requests for ‘records’ or ‘electronic records.’ Yet they are undeniably agency records under various relevant statutes,” Mr. Horner<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/christopher-horner/>told The Washington Times. “Has EPA <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/>been destroying these records or preserving them as required, but merely hiding them from the public and from Congress<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/> ?” http://bit.ly/16huVwx Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/29/do-text-messages-from-federal-officials-belong-in-/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/16huVwx+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
