Who should decide whether a record ought to be kept?

Gov. Easley’s baffling misperception of the state public records law is one more bizarre moment in this troubling episode. He was willing to fire an employee for counseling Ms. Hooker Odom not to talk, yet he had so little regard for Ms. Hooker Odom’s letter that he threw it away because he didn’t consider it worth saving.
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