Thursday, August 20, 2009

Kapanke Trial Update

Things aren't going too good for Krazy Kapanke in court. From the LaCrosse Tribune (emphasis mine):

Smyrski, Kapanke's chief of staff since 2006, said she routinely receives e-mails through that account when she's away from the office. She said she did not know that such records would be public, and she didn't check her personal account before denying the Democratic Party's request.

Smyrski said she had never received training on public records matters despite being Kapanke's records custodian and working at the Capitol since 2000.

She's the records custodian, but was never trained on how to do her job? Sounds like the aide for State Senator Mary Lazich.

The article goes on to state than an IT person reported that the emails that were deleted would have lasted about a month. Anything that was deleted more than a month earlier would have been lost forever. The tricky part of that is that they Kapanke's office did eventually supply some of the requested emails, after they said that they were not available. The tech support person however, testified that they were.

It does make one wonder what was on the emails/documents that they failed to produce and what really happened to them.

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