Kathleen Kane email report

The Attorney General's Office released a version of Kathleen Kane's offensive email report Tuesday that redacted the names of participants.

(Wallace McKelvey / PennLive)

UPDATE:

The email report Kathleen Kane commissioned into offensive and pornographic materials identified 13 senders who were either judges or senior government officials and another 38 "high-volume senders."

That report, released Tuesday by current Attorney General Bruce Beemer, redacts the names of the participants. It was completed by a private law firm, the D.C.-based BuckleySandler, at a cost of more than $385,000.

"It has not been altered in any way but for the removal of the names of individuals who were responsible for sending the emails," Beemer said Tuesday. "It is a full and complete report."

The reason, the attorney general said, was that Kane's outside investigators flagged a number of emails that were not actually inappropriate. That include discussion of breast cancer and a bar mitzvah.

Union contract rules barring office employees from being publicly shamed after they were privately disciplined was another factor, he said.

Beemer said the office would, however, be forwarding relevant information to employees and disciplinary bodies.

"I want everybody to have a transparent idea of what Gansler's report was," he said.

The report, Beemer said, found little evidence that there was improper contact between judges and prosecutors. Many of the emails were shared by support staff, he said.

"The vast majority of these emails were sent six, seven or eight years ago," he said. "It's important for everyone to understand that the culture in the Attorney General's Office and elsewhere across the state has changed as a result of this."

A media coalition led by PennLive/The Patriot-News is continuing to pursue an unredacted copy of the report in court.

The report is included in its entirety below.

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Report of Douglas F. Gansler on Misuse of Commonwealth E-mail Systems by PennLive on Scribd

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