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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday July 13, 2013 @06:33PM (#6039051)
>violated public records law for retaining documents,

I doubt that. Most public records laws I have ever seen explicitly state that if you are a State employee and you have documents which you know to be germane to an ongoing criminal investigation that they must not be destroyed, and that knowingly destroying documents in such a case is an offense.

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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by tantalor on Saturday July 13, 2013 @06:36PM (#6039063)
I think you misunderstood. The implication was he "violated public records law for retaining documents" by destroying documents.

The relevant paragraph is,

Peek's letter contends that on May 24, Kruidbos wiped clean the information on a computer assigned to him, thereby violating public records law.

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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:05PM (#6039141)
Right you are, I missed that part.
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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by anigbrowl on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:08PM (#6039148)
You misread the source. Your interpretation would only make sense if the article read 'violated public records law by retaining documents.' This is a pretty elementary grammar mistake on your part.
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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday July 13, 2013 @09:55PM (#6039563)
Yes! You are right! I am either incredibly new at reading, or maybe I was just careless. You win a prize! Congratulations!
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