Your E-Mail Message to a Colleague Could Be Tomorrow's Headline

Public colleges find that open-records laws apply to seemingly private communication

Mike S. Adams was a little-known professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington until administrators read through his e-mail messages last October. Now, he's a cause célèbre among privacy advocates.

Despite backing from a variety of such advocates, Mr. Adams and other public-college professors may not be able to stop the public from inspecting much

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