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Monday, June 17, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i41/41a03101.htm Your E-Mail Message to a Colleague Could Be Tomorrow's Headline - Public colleges find that open-records laws apply to seemingly private communication ANDREA L. FOSTER Mike S. Adams was a little-known professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington until administrators read through his e-mail messages last October. Now, he's a cause célèbre among privacy advocates. Despite backing from a variety of such advocates, Mr. Adams and other public-college professors may not be able to stop the public from inspecting much of their e-mail. That's because many states define professors at public institutions as state employees. Under open-records laws, their letters, documents, and often their e-mail messages, too, are -- like those of state officeholders -- open to public scrutiny....
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