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Gregg Mayer is a journalist and lawyer with a keen interest in the rapidly evolving world of e-Discovery. Gregg has published numerous articles, including writing for law journals and the American Bar Association. Gregg served as editor-in-chief of the Mississippi Law Journal. Before practicing law, Gregg worked as a newspaper reporter for six years.
Missouri Governor Wants $540,000 To Turn Over Email
Posted by Gregg Mayer on Friday, March 7th, 2008
Taxpayers in the state of Missouri are learning first-hand how costly and time-consuming disputes involving email can be:
Last September, Blunt’s aides set off a furor when they acknowledged they were routinely destroying e-mails and did not consider them to be public records.
But state law says government e-mails can be public records and that some must be preserved for as long as three years. Blunt has since acknowledged that some e-mails are public records.
After Eckersley’s allegations surfaced, Nixon appointed the independent investigative team last November.
In a letter obtained this week by the Post-Dispatch, Holstein told the investigative team that it must pay $540,940 to obtain e-mail records from the governor’s office.
Holstein wrote that the team’s 45 open-records requests for specified e-mail communications in Blunt’s office will require 14,620 hours of staff time.
Moreover, the governor approved hiring outside attorneys – at a cost up to $370 per hour – to defend in him a lawsuit related to the email mess. Read the full story in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch here.
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