The things state and local government workers talk about are captured not
in a paper trail, but in an email trail. The question facing the Minnesota
Legislature is, how long should government workers keep their electronic
records before they can delete them, sending those juicy information
tidbits to electronic oblivion? The subject of data retention, or how long
emails are kept before they're deleted, is far from hammered out.

Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association, said
there's clear historical precedent for how agencies keep paper records, but
emails are more toward uncharted territory. What makes them such a tricky
subject to deal with is simply the sheer volume of emails that are sent, he
said—conversations between government workers that decades ago would take
place via phone or in person, now take place entirely via email.
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