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  Files on Tom Craddick's computers deleted
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Last EditedDFWDem  Feb 06, 2009 08:42am
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News DateThursday, February 5, 2009 02:40:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAUSTIN – Before the House voted Speaker Tom Craddick out of his job, state officials wiped his computers clean and deleted scores of electronic files, raising concerns that public records may have been destroyed.

Files on one shared computer network drive were saved, but unless Craddick specifically requested them, computer hard drives and electronic records associated with individual employees were deleted, officials said.

Craddick left the speaker's office on Jan. 13, returning to the House as a rank-and-file member. The computers were removed from the speaker's office to be wiped clean at 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, said Anne Billingsley, spokeswoman for the Texas Legislative Council. Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, was sworn in as speaker at noon the following day.

Fred Lewis, an independent government watchdog, called the deletions "outrageous."

"If it's on a state computer, it's a state record," he said.
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