Court says state workers can delete e-mails.

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State employees can delete their e-mails at their discretion, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel has ruled.

PG Publishing, the legal name of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and other news organizations had sued the state in an attempt to require e-mails to be stored for up to two years. The paper filed suit after requesting information about a former education secretary's work as a special advisor and receiving only five e-mails in response.

If a state employee deletes an e-mail from an inbox, it is permanently deleted from the state server in five days, according to Philadelphia magazine. The Gazette argued that the policy allowing state workers to delete e-mails violated the spirit of the state's 2008...

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