Sarah Palin Must Preserve Private Emails
An Alaskan state judge reaffirmed Wednesday that government-related e-mails Governor Sarah Palin and her staff sent from private accounts such as Yahoo email addresses must be preserved and ordered further arguments over whether to halt the use of such accounts for state business.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers refused to immediately order Sarah Palin and her staff to quit using private e-mail accounts for state work and instead told attorneys in the case to present written arguments on the propriety of the practice and on which e-mails were public records.
Craig Stowers made the decision in a lawsuit brought by Anchorage resident Andree McLeod against Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Andrea McLeod contends that public records could be lost if the e-mails are not archived in the state system.
Sarah Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, and her Yahoo accounts were hacked last month. The hacking showed that the use of private e-mail accounts could make state business vulnerable to being exposed.
It was not widely known that the governor and her staff were using private e-mail accounts until McLeod filed the first of several open records requests earlier this year that yielded some of the e-mail traffic. Alaska officials blacked out much of it, citing privacy reasons.
Andrea McLeod is suing to preserve the records so they will be available for her open records request to review the e-mails.
Her attorney, Don Mitchell, said Wednesday that public access to the messages is obstructed because they cannot be obtained through channels set up under public records law.
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