A serious query: does deleting tweets violate the Presidential Records Act? https://t.co/z3NqVVYUlv— Andrew Rudalevige (@rudalev) November 12, 2019
The responses say "yes" but there's no enforcement mechanism. As it turns out, the Presidential REcords Act refers to amendments to the Federal Records Act, most recently in 2014 to include electronic records on non-official accounts. Specifically: "The last provision forbids officers and employees of the executive branch from using personal email accounts for government business, unless the employee copies all emails to either the originating officer or employee's government email, or to an official government record system to be recorded and archived"
I'd love to see the Archivist of the US given police authority. (My ex-bureaucratic persona speaking.)
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