By Corey G. Johnson
Staff writer
Staff writer
The chairman of the state university system’s governing body said Monday that he will examine the board’s use of private e-mails to ensure that records are being kept in compliance with state law.
Jim Phillips, chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, said he talked with UNC administrators, including system President Erskine Bowles, about whether switching to state-regulated e-mail would be complicated, hard or expensive to do.
All 34 members of the Board of Governors use private e-mail to conduct university business. Approximately 203 of 229 trustees in the UNC system also communicate with each other and the public through private or personal accounts.
In a story Saturday, The Fayetteville Observer questioned whether public e-mails were being properly kept after most UNC officials acknowledged never contemplating the issue. One UNC board member said board members routinely erased public e-mails from their computer and would be upset if required to keep them. (more…)
Raleigh, NC
