ALBANY — Six weeks after promising to review the state’s e-mail-retention policy, Gov. Cuomo on Friday set the date for a “summit” to create new rules and slammed fellow elected officials for dragging their feet.
“I write to once again coordinate a meeting to discuss creating one uniform policy for all e-mail retention and FOIL,” the governor said in a letter Friday to legislative leaders, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
FOIL is an acronym for the Freedom of Information Law, which requires the government to release many official documents on request.
The letter proposed a meeting on May 22.
Official state e-mails are currently wiped out after 90 days, a period that critics say is way too short — especially in light of the furor over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private e-mail account when she was US secretary of state.
The governor expressed frustration that a meeting had not yet taken place.
“My original letter requested that you contact us to facilitate a date and time for a meeting,” he said, adding that his office had “made several attempts to reach consensus.”
Schneiderman, who abolished the 90-day period for his own office, declined to comment.