Baltimore city government considering changes to 90-day email policy

Right now, Baltimore city government deletes official emails after three months. That policy could be changing.
According to the Baltimore Sun, Solicitor George Nilson said the 90-day deletion is one of a number of document retention policies that are under review by a working group. The email regulation has been in place for 12 years. Here are the basics of the policy, as reported by the Sun‘s Luke Broadwater:

Through three mayoral administrations, city officials have adhered to a 2004 internet policy that allowed public officials to destroy electronic communications after three months instead of saving them for inspection by members of the public, journalists and historians. Elected officials can keep their emails if they choose not to delete them.

While official emails have been discussed as a matter of servers and security in the context of Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, on a local level emails obtained from public records requests frequently provide a window into the inner workings of government around specific issues.
While there were few details on what changes to the city’s email policy would be proposed, providing more time for emails to exist and potentially come to light would appear to be in the interest of transparency.