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VA-ROL Members,

Passing on a timely excerpt from the Council of State Archivists' April
newsletter. It's good food for thought (and action).

Glenn Smith
Records Management Analyst <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/records/>
VA-ROL Moderator <http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-rol.html>
Library of Virginia <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/>
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Government and public-sector employees are increasingly using text
messaging to communicate about official business. And those communications,
even if conducted on privately owned devices, are public records.

Despite the indisputable growth of this communication channel for work, a
surprising number of public-sector agencies have not considered text
messages to be an electronic public record. Several recent court cases,
however, should disabuse anyone of such an outdated notion.

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