Once email is your main internal communication tool, should everything go to the electronic shredder?
source: WServerNews.com
... Recently Waterford Technologies released the results of a survey it conducted on e-mail archiving .... The survey, conducted with administrators of K-12 schools, teachers and parents, offered some interesting findings.
Other surveys shows that the vast majority of admins at K-12 schools were not adequately informed about their district's email retaining policies. And worst of all, it looks like almost 80% of schools do not have a plan in place to be compliant with the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). At the moment, about 50% of the States have new rules for Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
The upshot, there are many Federal and state requirements to preserve e-mail communications, plus a growing body of legal opinion that strongly supports the notion that e-mail should be preserved for legal discovery purposes. Schools are no exception - just like any other organization, they need to preserve e-mail for purposes of legal discovery.
The upshot, there are many Federal and state requirements to preserve e-mail communications, plus a growing body of legal opinion that strongly supports the notion that e-mail should be preserved for legal discovery purposes. Schools are no exception - just like any other organization, they need to preserve e-mail for purposes of legal discovery.
