SC Governor Nikki Haley Deleting Emails. This is wrong, right? [View All]

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Under a policy set by the governor’s office, only emails between the governor and the public are being saved and archived permanently.

Other emails that Haley sends or receives — including exchanges with her staff members — are being deleted.

Some say the policy violates the state’s open-records law, meant to ensure the public has access to government records. Because emails are being deleted, they are not available for the public to review.

“If you fail to retain public documents for some reasonable length of time, it’s a violation of (the law),” said Carmen Maye, an attorney for the S.C. Press Association, of which The State is a member.