“Certainly we believe that conducting public business, even when using personal means of communication, is subject to public records law.”
—Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols, apparently trying to explain that the administration never, ever intended to conceal informatin from the public—no way, no how.
“Please be careful to send stuff from Kyle (π-yush Jindal communications director Kyle Plotkin) like what you just sent….only to my gmail. May have accidentally hit my state addy (address), but they (the governor’s office) are very particular.”
—Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein health policy adviser Calder Lynch, directing a DHH employee not to use a state government email account. (No word if this was cleared through Kristy Nichols.)
“People use private accounts to hide things. If government business is conducted or information about it is sent or received on personal computers or through personal email accounts, that does not keep it from being the public’s business.”
—Kenneth Bunting, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition at the University of Missouri.
Louisiana Voice 
There not hiding anything…just like Jindal has the job he wants!!!!
Jindal does have the job he wants. He wouldn’t have had much of a chance of promoting to the national scene had he lost the governorship in the last election. He really wanted — he needed — the job he has.
This administration is a disgrace to all honest people everywhere.
Could we ensure that Jindal and his entire staff of Jindalclones are out of town for the next legislative session? Then give the Republican reps a really bad case of the flu.
After what the 47% comment did to Romney the Jindalclones are not going to say anything but “Happy Holidays” on their state accounts. So maybe we can get them for refusing to do their jobs. Can their personal accounts be subpeonaed?
Yes, their gmail accounts can be retrieved, but only the ones relevant to state business. Typically, all the politician or employee has to do is delete everything “personal” (or incriminating) before giving the emails over.
However, if one were to take the administration to court, they could subpoena the records from GMAIL that originate or were received from the network IPs at the state offices which would show even the deleted emails.
This is what needs to be done, imo. google says it complies 90% of the time when they are asked to hand records over by the government.
You should do a story about Jindal setting representative Bill Cassidy’s sister-in-law up with a high paying job appointment in his office, at the tax payers expense.
it pays to be well connected in louisiana!
I would be happy to do such a story if I knew the sister-in-law’s name.