The decision comes less than three weeks after KPCC published two-year-old internal emails that raised questions about whether Superintendent John Deasy’s meetings and discussions with Apple and textbook publisher Pearson influenced the school district’s historic $500 million technology contract.
And that tweet would be this one:
As the state has increasingly infringed on our privacy, it has increasingly shielded it's activities from public scrutiny.
— Mark Newgent (@MarkNewgent) September 18, 2014
And upon the revelation of those two year old emails, what did that LA School Board do? Yup, you guessed it:
The Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to buy a Microsoft email archiving service programmed to automatically destroy staff emails after one year.
Yep – Mark Newgent was right. So even as Government demand more transparency for itself into OUR lives, it is, more and more, deciding to be less transparent to those that both elect and pay their salaries. So, who is the Public Master and who is the public servant?
The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen.
(H/T: TechDirt), Steve’s post here)
