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Cleveland Heights committee advances ordinances limiting city email use and restricting access
Summary
The Administrative Services Committee voted to forward ordinances to require use of official city email for government business and to restrict who may review city email accounts, sending the measures to the Committee of the Whole for further consideration.
The Cleveland Heights Administrative Services Committee voted June 30 to advance proposed ordinances that would (1) encourage or require city employees and elected officials to use official city email for city business and (2) prohibit review of city-provided email accounts except under limited conditions.
Chair Craig Cobb led the discussion and described changes he drafted to the mayor’s original proposal for rules on city email. Cobb said he had “put consideration of that legislation on hold because I thought the introduction of it … was political,” and later said the package is meant to prohibit review of council emails “without consent or unless it is done by the law department in responding to a lawful records request.”
Why it matters: Council members said the measures respond to concerns that the mayor or others may have accessed council members’ city-provided email accounts during an investigation into possible…
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