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A teacher in Kent, Washington has been suspended for allegedly having inappropriate relations with a student. The affair was discovered after the student bragged to an uncle about the relationship, and after the student’s mother found a large number of text messages between her son and the teacher on the student’s mobile phone.

In a totally unrelated case, a blogger/reporter decided to conduct an experiment to see if text messages sent by Seattle City Council members are preserved in accordance with Washington State’s public disclosure law. The reporter was told by a City official that the Council member in question “did not retain copies of text messages sent or received for [the] time period” requested.

The lesson here is clear: if you need to perform e-discovery on text messages, hire a mom, not a government official.