By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Capitol Times
The Arizona Corporation Commission is obtaining software designed to help ensure the public has a chance from now on of getting access to text messages of state utility regulators.
But for the moment it will be up to the regulators to decide whether to use it.
Jodi Jerich, the commission’s executive director, has purchased licenses for a product that copies the messages from a phone directly onto the user’s state computer. More to the point, anything copied onto the computer is then automatically backed up to a file server, meaning they are archived.
Put simply, once a text is copied to the computer, there would be no excuse for saying it’s not available.
