An aide to Mayor Thomas Menino did not break the law by deleting tens of thousands of emails because there is evidence he believed the emails were saved elsewhere, an investigation by the attorney general’s office concluded.
Michael Kineavy, the chief of policy and planning for the City of Boston, deleted almost every email he received over a five-year period, appearing to break a public records law requiring municipal employees to save their emails for at least two years.
However, Kineavy may have deleted his emails because he believed, like other city employees, that they were saved on a back-up server, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Menino called for increased training and policies for city employees regarding public records in response to the investigation.
