State Department officials avoid preserving their government emails whenever possible because “they do not want to make the email available in searches,” according to a new inspector general report made public Wednesday.

The report said investigators were told by State Department officials that “many emails that qualify as records are not being saved as record emails.” The same conclusion was reached by the inspector general in a 2012 report that said State Department officials “did not ensure properimplementation, monitor performance, or enforce compliance.”