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L.A. Times to post database of Palin emails

By Deirdre Edgar
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As Washington bureau reporter Matea Gold reported, the state of Alaska is scheduled to release more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s emails Friday from her time as governor.

The Times’ Data Desk has created a database, Sarah Palin’s emails: The Alaska Archive, where readers will be able to view and search through the documents. (Alaska is releasing the emails in print form, so The Times will scan each of the documents and post them.)

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The emails will span the beginning of Palin’s term, in December 2006, through Sept. 30, 2008, which is when media outlets requested them. It has taken since that time to fulfill the records request.

The Times and the Tribune Washington Bureau submitted a request this spring for the rest of Palin’s emails from her term as governor, but Alaska has not said when it would release correspondence from after Sept. 30, 2008.

--Deirdre Edgar

Readers Representative
Deirdre Edgar

Deirdre Edgar is the Los Angeles Times’ former readers’ representative. From January 2010 to May 2018, she had the privilege of hearing directly from readers about questions of accuracy and fairness in Times coverage. Edgar is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach and joined The Times in 1999 as an editor. She is a member of the Organization of News Ombudsmen and a lifetime member of the American Copy Editors Society.

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