I would certainly think that there are better uses for my tax money than putting 10,000+ pages of material online! The cost, and the staff time needed to do this would be large, and very disproportionate.
To say nothing of the privacy consideration of the city suddenly publishing private emails sent by constituents to their council member. Eva ignores this completely, but it seems to me that you would have to get permission before publishing this private correspondence. Subpoened for use by federal investigators is quite different from just publishing to everyone! Tim Bonham, Ward 12 > >Twenty-three bound volumes of city inspection records and e-mails from City > >Council members and their staffs were made > >available and joined an estimated 10,000 pages of similar material that >was made > > available on Oct. 3. The two sets of > >volumes, city officials said, represents the total material subpoened by >federal > > authorities in the investigation. > >It would also be nice if the City would make this information available on >the web. It should not be a problem for the city to make the Council >Members emails available electronically. Some of the other material may >require scanning. >... >Eva Young >Central _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
