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by jotakami 2263 days ago
I’m a resident of Gainesville and I was completely unaware of this. Now I know not to send anything sensitive to a local government email address...
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In Florida, almost anything you send to any level of state or local government is public. If you're a customer of GRU, it's very likely that I could request your last year of bills, your address (if I know your name), etc. There are definitely some drawbacks of the very broad public records laws here.
Just use your Mayor's private email server. They'll be sure to acid wash the drives when they leave office.