Bailey said a person on her DIS staff worked with Huckabee's office "to determine the mechanism for their transition out of office." She also said she believes that the staffer provided Huckabee's office with options for handling the sensitive information kept on the computer hard drives and servers.

"Working with that designee, they selected a combination of the write-over of the hard drives and the destruction of the hard drives," Bailey said. "The CIO's office has guidelines that describe for state agencies recommendations if the computers house sensitive data and in those recommendations it says if there's sensitive data, it is [the CIO's] recommendation that [the agencies] write over it one to three times and destroy the hard drive."

Bailey said her office does get requests from other state agencies to destroy or write over sensitive data, but does not weigh in on whether doing so is appropriate. "Our customers make the decision, DIS does not make the decision, about whether data is sensitive or not," she said. "We take care of information for our customers; We back up information for our customers, but we do not go in and analyze the data for our customers."