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Retention via Wright's Legal Beagle by Ben Wright on 8/19/08 Freedom of
Information, Open Records and Sunshine Laws
Increasingly, public agencies are required to search for and turn over
e-mail records in response to freedom of information and open records
requests.

Generally speaking, under either state or federal law, a freedom of
information act requires government to disclose requested records to
citizens. Sometimes a FOIA might be known as an open records act or a
sunshine act.

One example: A Kentucky judge required state government to give a man
copies of e-mails between his wife, a state employee, and another state
employee whom the man suspected was having an affair with his wife.
(Associated Press, “Judge: Ky. Man Can See His Wife's E-Mail,” Nov. 20,
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