Restraining Order Halts Email Destruction

After Houston's embattled prosecutor, Chuck Rosenthal, came under fire for his sexist, racist and romantic emails, the Sheriff's office decided to have their emails deleted. That decision, however, has now been put on hold:

A judge issued a temporary restraining order against the Harris County Sheriff's office Friday evening, forbidding the department from deleting e-mail.

The department announced this week it was automatically deleting e-mail after 14 days, part of a plan to ease a shortage of computer storage space.

In his request for the restraining order, KTRK reporter Wayne Dolcefino cited concerns that the office was "destroying electronic mail that is responsive to pending Texas Public Information Act requests," according to court documents.

It seems that whatever they wanted to hide may eventually come to the surface.