Education Secretary Betsy DeVos used personal email for official business on a “limited” number of occasions, according to a report released Monday by the agency’s inspector general. The report found fewer than 100 emails sent or received to personal accounts between Jan. 20, 2017, when President Trump took office, and April 10, 2018. “The Department’s policy prohibits its employees from using personal accounts to conduct government business, except for exceptional circumstances when their Department email accounts are unavailable,” the report said. “I get ‘DeVos + Personal Email’ gets clicks but receiving fewer than 100 emails and then forwarding them to senior staff to ensure they are captured on our government email server is hardly news,” she said. The Education Department’s inspector general also surveyed 51 political appointees in the Education Department and found 40 had used personal email or messaging accounts at some point for government business.

Source: Washington Post May 20, 2019 23:48 UTC