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Department of Corrections admits 'significant loss of data'
By naplesnews.com- Matt Dixon
Published: 10/30/2014

Every email sent or received from the embattled Florida Department of Corrections over a nearly two-year period was destroyed in 2012, a massive loss of public records that help document the agency’s actions.

The department acknowledged only recently, in response to inquiries over the past 12 months from the Scripps-Tribune Capitol Bureau, that emails from January 2007 through September 2008 were destroyed. The department’s top information officer called the destruction of public records a “significant loss of data.”

“All data sent and received by DOC staff statewide through email from each institution, community corrections, health services, and all other business units within the department for the entire year of 2007 and from January through September of 2008 were destroyed and are no longer retrievable,” Douglas B. Smith, the department’s chief information officer, wrote in a letter dated Aug. 6 that the Scripps-Tribune Capitol Bureau received only last week.

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