PA. Ed Sec. Tries to Shut Down one Scandal, and opens up another new scandal

[JPZenger]

http://triblive.com/news/education/6570486-74/email-emails-tomalis#axzz39p5gslM5

"If Pennsylvania Department of Education officials “delete and cleanse” emails nightly, as the agency's head acknowledged, the practice does not pass a “gut check” for proper email retention policy, the director of the state's Office of Open Records said on Wednesday.
Terry Mutchler, who helped establish the office six years ago when lawmakers amended the Right-to-Know Law, said ordinary citizens would not consider nightly email deletions to be reasonable for a government agency.

Acting state Education Secretary Carolyn Dumaresq told ABC/27 about the practice in an interview defending the Corbett administration's decision to keep former Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis on the payroll since July 2013, paying him a $139,542 salary. Tomalis has sent five emails and made about one phone call a day during that period, records show.

“I check mine at the end of each evening. ... I clear my emails out, as does Ron, and we only save those emails into files to remember a decision that was made,” Dumaresq told the TV station. “So there is no email trail for a lot of folks." "We delete and cleanse each evening, and that's why there are no emails.”

A state manual addresses email retention, but agencies have their own policies. The open records law governs the release of emails and would trump agency policies, Mutchler said... "


Yes, the Department would need a few huge warehouses to hold all those emails if they weren't deleted everyday.

[Dawson Leery]

1. And Corbett is "closing the gap" according to a Rethug poll?

The thug base will come out for him (40%). Barring a few major errors by Wolf, Tommy's ceiling is 43%.