The emails released covered Dec. 4, 2006, when Palin took office, until September 2008, or a few weeks after Republican presidential candidate John McCain tapped her to be his running mate. The state has yet to begin reviewing emails from that point until she quit as governor 10 months later.
The emails were released Friday to media organizations, including The Associated Press, who sought them under an open records request shortly after Palin was named the vice presidential candidate.
However, there are very few emails from her first – and very busy – month in office, as first reported by the Anchorage Daily News.
Only five emails from December were provided in the release, and the first email generated from Palin's Yahoo account appears Jan. 2, 2007. Another from an unidentified account just days earlier was included in an email chain between aides.
Linda Perez, the administrative office for Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, said Tuesday she has asked information technology services to check their search criteria for the emails and come back with suggestions. She did not have a timetable for when they might be able to provide further information.
Palin and her staff were known to use private email accounts to conduct state business.
One high ranking Department of Natural Resources official, Marty Rutherford, sent Palin three emails to her government account between Dec. 4-6 before Michelle Fabrello, the coordinator for constituent relations, responded.
"I wanted to let you know that this is a `public' address for the Governor, it is not one that she has access to," Fabrello wrote.
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