Great post on Death by Email, click to read the entire post.

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley’s panel on deleting emails and public records laws is scheduled to hold its second meeting today.  It is a timely meeting after revelations this week that show that some employees believed that the Governor ordered the deletion of emails coming from his office.

Last Month (March 4th), Debbie Crane, the former public affairs director for the state Department of Health and Human Services, was fired and shortly afterwards she said in an interview that she and other top public information officers were told to delete email after sending it to the governor’s office.  This instruction could be in violation of North Carolina’s public records law.  (This paragraph now contains the correction mentioned in the comment.  My apologies for any confusion and my thanks to the commenter.)