Interesting cases involving "academic freedom" related to e-mails.  See The Chronicle below.

Anita Fleming-Rife
 
BE WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE THOSE WHO MIND DON'T MATTER AND THOSE WHO MATTER DON'T MIND.


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'Academic Freedom' Offers Little Protection Against New Efforts to Obtain Professors' E-Mails

No state open-records law cites the concept as a way to dodge requests like the ones just made in the Midwest for such correspondence.


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