News Roundup
Feb 17 2009
Mayor Ray Nagin’s 2008 E-Mails Deleted in Violation of Records Law
The Times-Picayune
by Frank Donze
Tuesday February 17, 2009, 5:46 PM
Orleans Parish Civil Court Judge Rose Ledet delivered a stinging rebuke to Mayor Ray Nagin’s administration Tuesday after learning that virtually all of the e-mails sent and received by Nagin last year and much of the information on his 2008 calendar have been erased in an apparent violation of the state public records law.
Clearly disturbed by the revelation, Ledet ordered the Nagin administration to immediately halt the practice of “destroying correspondence” by the mayor and members of his executive staff.
The tense scene played out during a hearing in Ledet’s court on a lawsuit filed against the Nagin administration by WWL-TV news anchor Lee Zurik, who sought the e-mails and calendar information in a public records request filed in January. Read more.
Source: The Times-Picayune
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