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

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

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

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.

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