PITTSBURGH POST-TRIBUNE: Lawmakers of both parties on Monday pushed for legislation to establish a minimum standard for retaining emails because an interim attorney general dramatically reduced the time required for keeping emails in the prosecutor’s office while sensitive investigations were under way.
The Attorney General’s Office kept emails for five years under Republican Gov. Tom Corbett when he was attorney general. The policy changed to six months under Corbett’s former top assistant, Bill Ryan, in February 2011, according to documents Attorney General Kathleen Kane released on Friday…
Kane, a Democrat, is fulfilling a campaign promise to investigate why it took three years to arrest Sandusky, a former Penn State University defensive football coach, in November 2011. A Centre County jury in 2012 convicted Sandusky of 45 counts of molesting boys… (more)
