- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
A multi million company fired their CEO. While searching for a new CEO, an interim one was hired as a contractor. This person refused to use their work email, but rather had all email correspondence, including documents, sent to their personal email account.
The company finally hired a new CEO and the former interim CEO is no longer at the company. I just learned that the former CEO still has documents belonging to the company on their personal email account. In order for the company to get any of these documents, they are being charged a minimum of 15 minutes at a very high hourly rate. This seems dishonest and almost like extortion. The documents are no longer theirs - they belong to the company. Is it lawful for the former CEO to keep the companies documents on their personal email accounts and charge the company to get access to them?
The company finally hired a new CEO and the former interim CEO is no longer at the company. I just learned that the former CEO still has documents belonging to the company on their personal email account. In order for the company to get any of these documents, they are being charged a minimum of 15 minutes at a very high hourly rate. This seems dishonest and almost like extortion. The documents are no longer theirs - they belong to the company. Is it lawful for the former CEO to keep the companies documents on their personal email accounts and charge the company to get access to them?