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From: FederalNewsRadio.com | 1500AM
By Eric White | @FedNewsUpdates
In today’s Top Federal Headlines, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general says agency managers to need to put in guidelines for employees’ use of texting so they don’t violate the rules.
- A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general says agency managers need to rein in employees communicating via text messaging. Though the IG did not find any instances of employees using texts to bypass the Federal Records Act, it did say employees do need to be notified that all work-related text messages need to be available for Freedom of Information Act searches. The IG also recommended EPA develop a policy to help retain messages when mobile devices are replaced, and to tell employees not to change text message retention settings on them. (Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General)