article_snippet: However, it is currently unclear whether Clinton broke a State guideline dating back to 2005 that suggested "normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an (authorized information system), which has the proper level of security control.
article_snippet: Those guidelines were filled with exemptions that could allow Clinton to use a private account.
article_snippet: Under federal regulations, there is no prohibition on using a personal email for official business as long as any records are preserved," a senior department official said.
article_snippet: State Department guidelines require employees who use private email accounts to back up those documents on government computers so that not the State Department can archive private email accounts and private email accounts can be available for Freedom of Information Act requests.
article_snippet: The National Archives and Records Administration, the government agency that regulates the Federal Records Act, issued guidance in 2009 -- the same year Clinton took over at State -- that allowed agency employees to use personal accounts as long as agency employees ensured "that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system.
article_snippet: It wasn't until 2014 - when President Barack Obama signed an update to the Federal Records Law - that a timeline was set up to mandate how quickly emails had to be turned over by people who used personal devices.