Eliminating records at a faster pace — or not keeping them at all — could leave the public in the dark about how elected officials use their powers.
New rules that allow Arizona's lawmakers to destroy emails after 90 days and delete text messages as quickly as they receive them are drawing criticism from Democrats and a public records watchdog.
"There should be a constitutional right of access" to such records instead of a destruction policy, said Gregg Leslie, executive director of the First Amendment Clinic at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law."Those records have important information about the legislative business that's conducted. The public has a right to know what is there."
"The old retention policy was ancient and really outdated and it didn't really reflect the way people communicate these days," Toma said, adding that the policy mirrors the state judiciary's rules on records.
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