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Complaint on e-mail policy rejected
April 17, 2008

The Travis County district attorney's office has declined to pursue a complaint regarding Gov. Rick Perry's policy of deleting e-mails every seven days despite an attorney's assertion that the policy "insures that valuable public information is lost."

Written by News Brief, Austin American-Statesman

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The Travis County district attorney's office has declined to pursue a complaint regarding Gov. Rick Perry's policy of deleting e-mails every seven days despite an attorney's assertion that the policy "insures that valuable public information is lost."

Open records attorney Joe Larsen, who says the e-mail deletion policy is in violation of Texas public information laws, said he will take the complaint and request for an injunction to Attorney General Greg Abbott for review.

In a letter to Larsen on Tuesday, Greg Cantrell, assistant district attorney in the office's Public Integrity Unit, said the office will not move forward with an injunction against Perry "based on our review of information we received from the governor's office."

Larsen said prosecutors seemed to have "accepted everything the governor's office told them" with no independent investigation.

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