Today’s educators teach under an increasing expectation of legal challenges. Lawsuits against public schools are happening on an ongoing basis. The National School Board Association reported that 25% of public schools faced a lwasuit over the last couple of years.
An e-mail message can be used to issue a report on an incident. E-mail messages also record important communication between two participants pertaining to a topic that might in the future become a legal issue. By maintaining a searchable archive of messages, you can avoid burdening a school district’s already strained IT resources with the added painstaking and time-consuming task of retrieving e-mail evidence from back-up tapes.
Since December 2006, as a result of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), e-mails sent and recieved by schools can be called upon by a court and used as evidence in a lawsuit.
This white paper will look at and explain the various imperatives for the retention of e-mail messages for educators and school administrators.
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