It is generally unwise to use private email accounts for company business. Clark v. Council of Unit Owners of the 100 Harborview Drive Condominium Association, 2024 WL 2155021 (D. Md. May 13, 2024)(Quereshi, J.), provides a good example. The Clark Court did two relevant things:
- It ordered targeted searches of the private email accounts of officers of the defendant Condominium Association because those accounts had been used for condominium business; and,
- It explained when an officer’s private email is within the organization’s possession, custody, and control