Public Officials Find Text Messages Not Private

Those supposedly private messages that public officials dash off on their government cellphones to friends and colleagues aren't necessarily private after all. Courts, lawyers and states are increasingly treating these typed text messages as public documents subject to the same disclosure laws -- including the federal Freedom of Information Act -- that apply to e-mails and paper records.

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