With news outlets and open government advocates sounding the alarm, California Assemblyman Marc Levine is introducing a law requiring state agencies to preserve records for two years. The Department of Insurance adopted a policy automatically deleting employees’ e-mails after 180 days, prompting a staff member to say that they needed the e-mails to retrieve old records of enforcement activities. (The Sacramento Bee, March 23, 2022, by Wes Venteicher)
The department revoked the policy four weeks after it went into effect in January. (The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 30, 2022, by Jeff McDonald)
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