<a href="http://www.rcfp.org/ecommunications/">Access to electronic communications</a>

As technology brings electronic communications such as e-mail, text messaging and instant messaging into the mainstream of workday activity, governments from the federal down to the local levels are charged with evaluating how to treat those communications. Are they public records, subject to release just as any other record? Can the activity that occurs in those exchanges constitute a “meeting”? While new cases and legislation may specifically address these and related issues, many governments are still figuring out how to treat their electronic communications.