Paul Chesser helps keep me sane by proving that some other human being notices that the governor’s email panel is a sad joke:
Yesterday the panel recommended a “computerized training tutorial and quiz for government workers who need or want it,” so the supposedly ignorant employees would now understand what they can or cannot delete from the computers.
Lest anyone forget, this whole problem did not arise because rank-and-file employees did not know what they should save. It became a problem when it was discovered that Easley’s public information officer(s) — those who know more about public records law than anyone else in government (or at least they should) — instructed other PIOs to intentionally destroy e-mail messages sent to and sent from the governor’s office.
And lest we forget, Charlotte city attorney Mac McCarley is a member of that panel, although he evidently was not at the meeting that adopted the tutorial approach.
Maybe he was back in Charlotte trying to find the ethics complaint his office received back on March involving city council and campaign contributions from developers. McCarley and the city have not yet seen fit to respond.
