Transparency in Question when Elected Leaders use Private Email

| October 15, 2015 

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Used to be if you wanted something done, you’d write your congressman or congresswoman. But nowadays written communication is more often done through email. A notable number of state politicians in Alabama don’t use their official state email address instead opting for a Gmail or even AOL account.  That’s a problem say government transparency advocates. We talk about it with Alabama Media Group columnist John Archibald.

 

 

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