On March 25, 1990, the PEER Committee investigated telephone equipment and a newly constructed wall in the east wing basement telephone circuit room of the New Capitol. The equipment is part of a data communications network approved by the Central Data Processing Authority connecting the Governor’s offices in the Capitol with the Governor’s Mansion and Sillers Building. Although the security wall serves a useful purpose by preventing unauthorized tampering with circuitry and would probably have been approved by the Department of Archives and History as required by law, the Governor’s Office and Division of General Services constructed the wall without the Department of Archives and History’s prior approval.
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