CDC Must Stop Deleting Emails: Judge

Published on August 9, 2024

A federal judge on Aug. 9 ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop deleting emails from former employees, finding that the deletions likely violate federal law. The CDC previously acknowledged in response to a Freedom of Information Act that it deletes emails from many former workers just 30 days after they leave the agency, although the CDC has since said that the accurate timeline is 90 days. “The court concludes that CDC’s policy and practice of disposing of former employees’ emails ninety days after the end of their employment is likely unlawful,” U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said in his order....

Continue reading on website
Other news

CDC Confirms New COVID Variant on the Rise, Makes Vaccine Prediction

August 9, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the KP.3.1.1 COVID-19 variant is now the most common strain in the United States, but a spokesperson added that there is no evidence that it causes more severe symptoms.The most recently updated CDC statistics show that the variant, an offshoot of the KP.3 strain, makes up about 27.8 percent of estimated cases for the two-week

Judge Pushes Back Schedule to Restart Trump Jan. 6 Case

August 9, 2024
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted on Aug. 9 a request by prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s office after conferring with attorneys for former President Donald Trump to delay a status report and conference to resume litigation in the case charging the 45th president for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.The status report was originally due Aug. 8, but the parties instead filed a reques