The crushing question
I've been knocking around trying to learn more about hard-drive crushing, the protocol and industry-wide practices and such. At this point, I'll say this: State government guidelines, drawn from industry-wide ones, say the disposition of hard drives is the decision of the "customer" and that among the appropriate options is crushing/destruction. This crushing of Huckabee's office computer hard drives was one of the biggest; most of the others are the occasional computer hard drives containing such things as sensitive crime information. Periodically, the state makes tapes of all state government servers and stores the tapes in a building down by the river. But there's no need FOI-ing those backup tapes from Huckabee's closed network, because they gave all that to Brenda Turner, Huckabee's chief of staff.