Easley used private e-mail for state business

Former Governor Mike Easley held a private e-mail account he used for state business.

Easley former Communications Director Sherri Johnson, Easley testified in a deposition that the secret, and keep using it for state business. Johnson was part of a plea of public documents issued N & O, The Charlotte Observer, The John Locke Foundation and many other news media brought on access to e-mails.

The news organizations sued after a few public information officers of the government, "said Easley administration routinely deleted e-mail communications, and advised other state public information officers to do the same. The condition of the public records law says that e-mails are Public registers no different than any other state documents.

A judge may news organizations to sell to members of the press Easley employees before deciding whether to dismiss the case.

Numerous requests for public records office in Easley N & O about his two terms as governor was never an e-mail from Easley's private account.

The address: "Nick Danger" spelled backwards. The name is probably a reference to the fictional, satirical Private Eye. She was back, as Easley's learning disability made him writing back, Johnson testified.

"The governor wrote back. I mean, when he wrote, he wrote back," Johnson said after a copy of the deposition.

Johnson denied telling the public information for government officials to remove e-mail messages to the office of the governor. Notes taken during a meeting two pios pios friend was told to delete messages to and from the office of the governor.

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Johnson testified that the officers were encouraged to use the phone instead of an e-mail account for sensitive issues.

"Ruben Young, our counsel expressed to me that he believed that an appropriate form of communication when an object was very sensitive, you should first grab the phone and call," says Johnson. "We are treated to some very sensitive issues - if you look in the e-mail policy, said that e-mails - like - it is like a postcard. And some of the questions that were just - were treated better Only by picking up the phone and - and - and let us know.

"And sometimes we would only say:" Oh, send us an e-mail, "you know, depending on what it was. You know, let us know. But we asked them to call us first. "

Other witnesses in the case is expected to be published today.