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February 1, 2007
Montana School District Ensures Compliance With Latest Court Ruling on Email Archiving
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — February 1 , 2007 — Even before new federal rules went into effect December 1, 2006 requiring all employee email,
instant messages (IM) and other digital communications to be archived, Frenchtown School District in Frenchtown, MT, was in compliance.
Last November, Mark McMurray, Frenchtown School District's technology coordinator, thought it prudent to implement Email Archiving from
Lightspeed Systems after nearby school districts had all their email records subpoenaed by a politician suspecting school email accounts
were used to defeat his initiative. Lightspeed Systems, developer of integrated content filtering and security software products for K-12
school networks, includes Email Archiving with its Total Traffic Control software suite.
"In Montana," McMurray explains, "all email in public schools are public documents." Knowing this and the trouble his peers were having
with producing email records, McMurray took swift steps to ensure Frenchtown School District would stay out of the hot seat. "After setting
the policy to archive email for two years, Lightspeed's Email Archiving puts the district on solid ground for any future inquiries," says
McMurray. Although he hasn't been required to yet, Email Archiving allows McMurray to easily search for email and attachments sent internally
and externally through the Exchange 2003 server. User mailboxes are not altered in any way and the entire process remains transparent to the user.
"The end result," according to Joel Heinrichs, Lightspeed Systems CEO, "is a network-wide message journal that supports selective reporting
of any message traffic occurring on a network, regardless of its source or destination." Heinrichs reports heightened interest in Message
Journaling among Lightspeed's school customers since the new rules took affect.
About Lightspeed Systems
Lightspeed Systems, Inc. develops network security software to ensure CIPA compliance and provide total traffic control to educational IT
professionals through a single interface. TTC is deployed in approximately 800 school districts throughout the U.S. and protects over 4
million end users from the dangers of the Internet. The company has been developing software for over 20 years to provide leading-edge
networking software for a worldwide customer base of education and corporate organizations. Lightspeed Systems maintains its corporate
headquarters at: 1800 19th Street, Bakersfield, California. Telephone: (661) 716-7600.
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