For the past two years, a committee headed by the Menino administration’s top lawyer has examined the issue of e-mail retention among city workers, but somehow neglected to uncover an apparent computer snafu that allowed the scrubbing of nearly all e-mails sent or received by Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s policy chief.
Corporation Counsel William Sinnott defended his committee’s handling of the issue, saying it never realized the city’s computer system lacked a back-up system to save employee’s deleted e-mails until last March - after The Boston Globe requested to see copies of e-mails from the mailbox of Michael Kineavy, the mayor’s chief of policy and planning, from Oct. 1, 2008, to March 31.
“We absolutely were not aware of that. If we had been aware of that or if our information systems had been aware of it, it would have been rectified. It came as a surprise to everyone, including Mr. Kineavy, who was under the assumption that anything he deleted was being retained in the big file, if you will, of the city’s computer system,” Sinnott said.
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Source: news.bostonherald.com
By: Richard Weir
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