ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has acknowledged emails on the governor’s personal iPad were accidentally deleted, a potential violation of state law, an open-government advocacy organization said Friday.

A state information technology employee was trying to put an application on the tablet in May to retrieve and print out the emails to and from the governor’s transition team, but the 200 emails were deleted instead.

Attempts to retrieve them have been unsuccessful.

Christopher Kise, who worked for Scott’s transition team, pointed out that Scott had nothing to do with it. “The governor preserved the emails on his iPad,” Kise said.

Kise and other attorneys who work for Scott acknowledged the deletion in a meeting with the First Amendment Foundation this week.