California State Assembly District 78 recently issued the following announcement.
California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego)re-introduced his government transparency legislation that would mandate all California public agencies retain e-mails for a minimum of two years. Assemblymember Gloria authored this same legislation last year; however it was vetoed by Governor Newsom.
“I continue to believe the public has a right to access and examine government documents and that includes e-mails,” said Assemblymember Gloria. “The State should absolutely set a sensible, statewide e-mail record retention standard for public agencies. E-mails are of equal relevance to paper records and they are critical to conducting the public’s business.”
Assembly Bill 2093 (AB 2093) would require all public records transmitted via e-mail to be retained for at least two years. The bill was inspired by investigative reporting by Voice of San Diego, which found some cities were deleting e-mail records under the two-year requirement prescribed in the California Public Records Act (CPRA). One municipality received criticism for its e-mail retention policy that allowed city officials to delete e-mails after just 30 days. The cities argued current law is ambiguous on electronic and e-mails records.
AB 2093 would clarify that e-mails and other electronic public records are subject to the CPRA’s retention standard thereby establishing the two-year standard statewide for all public agencies.
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