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Michigan Police Messages Avoid FOIA Through Encryption Top state police officials have downloaded encryption applications on their state-issued phones which keep no record of deleted text messages. Some are concerned that these practices break the Freedom of Information Act. Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press   |   January 22, 2021   |  Analysis (TNS) — Top officials at the Michigan State Police have been using text messaging encryption devices that can put their internal communications out of the reach of the Freedom of Information Act and ...

LANSING — Top officials at the Michigan State Police have been using text messaging encryption devices that can put their internal communications out of the reach of the Freedom of Information Act and legal discovery, according to admissions the MSP made in a civil lawsuit. Among those who have downloaded the "end-to-end" encryption applications onto their state-issued phones are a lieutenant-colonel, two majors and two first lieutenants, according to court records obtained by the Free Press. The use by top MSP officials of the encryption devices — under which text messages, once del...

Police Use of Encrypted App Raises Transparency Concerns Officials at the Michigan State Police have been using text messaging encryption devices that can put internal communications out of the reach of the Freedom of Information Act, according to info in a civil lawsuit. by Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press / January 22, 2021 Shutterstock/Illus_man (TNS) — Top officials at the  Michigan State Police have been using text messaging encryption devices that can put their internal communications out of the reach of the Freedom of Infor...