California Medicaid plan introduces new email policy after court ruling

After the California Supreme Court ruled that private emails dealing with public business are not shielded from the state's public records law, leaders of the state's Gold Coast Health Plan introduced a new email policy forbidding employee use of private emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter to conduct public business, according to the Ventura County Star.

The new policy passed by the state Medicaid provider prohibits the governing board and 180 Gold Cost employees from using personal messaging accounts for any message related to the health plan. Employees could face termination if the policy is broken.

The goal of the email rule is to make sure the insurer protects sensitive information from public view, since any information sent in a private email could be exposed with a public records request. 

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