Eric Schneiderman Suspends Automatic Email Purge

Eric Schneiderman current New York Attorney General is putting the email deletion policy of his predecessor current governor Andrew Como on hold. Previously as with the emails of all New York State employees it is required that emails in the Attorney Generals office be deleted after 90 days.

The policy is a major concern to those concerned about government transparency including many in the State legislature. A bill has been purposed requiring that those emails be kept for a much longer period of time. This policy is a recent adoption by the Como administration and along with the tendency of Gov. Como and his aids to avoid leaving paper trails as a matter of habit has led to the Governors office coming under fire for being secretive.

In the interim the Attorney Generals office says it will put deleting any emails on hold pending the development of a new policy.