D.C. mayor holds off on plan to purge city e-mails after 6 months
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty withdrew his executive order to purge the majority of city e-mails after six months. Last month, after the mayor proposed deleting e-mails, the D.C. chapter of SPJ sent a letter to Fenty urging him to hold off. D.C. council members, at odds with the mayor, are now proposing to include e-mails in the city public records retention policy so the mayor or anyone else can't delete city communication so quickly. The mayor notified the council this week of his decision to hold off on the 6-month e-mail deletion policy through an e-mail. See
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