Confused computers
Thursday, February 26th, 2009In 2006, Idaho legislators caught the state’s public records law up with the Internet, inserting that “a request for a public record – may be conducted by electronic mail.”
But the optional language, while giving public agencies the control they need over requests, has resulted in a patchwork of records policies and at least one county – Jerome – where some departments no longer accept them in digital form.
From the Twin Falls Times-News