St. Petersburg Times: Gov. Rick Scott’s original transition e-mails accidentally deleted, state now says
BY MICHAEL C. BENDER
TALLAHASSEE
The e-mail accounts of Rick Scott and most of the governor-elect’s transition team were deleted soon after he took office, potentially erasing public records that state law requires be kept.
Scott’s team acknowledged for the first time this week that the private company providing e-mail service deleted the records as early as mid January, about the time the Times/Herald first sought transition e-mails.
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