Pride

At the College of Business of the Univeristy of Southern Mississippi*

*From the point of view of a full professor

      Q.  What backup system does the University have in place?

       A.  It does not back up e-mails.
    
       Q.  You have no off-site storage?

       A.  No.  I have no off-site storage.

      Q.  Do you have any other archiving?

      A.   No.

Homer Coffman deposition, January 30, 2006, pp. 19-20. 

Homer Coffman, Chief Information Officer, University of Southern Mississippi

3.3 Monitoring
Southern Miss. employees shall have no expectation of privacy (exception Student email) in anything they store, send or receive on the universities email system. Mississippi “Public Record Act” states that this email information is Public record and anyone can request copies at anytime. Southern Miss. may monitor messages without prior notice. Southern Miss. is not obliged to monitor email messages.

USM IT Governance Policy on E-Mail 
http://www.usm.edu/itgovernance/policy/docs/email_policy3_15_05.pdf

So how does the University implement the following policy?