Over the last few years the FAA has started issuing Operations Specifications for electronic record keeping. It was primarily for Part 121, 125, 133, 135 and 137 operators. It would not be a stretch for them to include Part 145 operators.
With many of the FAA inspectors having very little real experience, this is becoming more and more common. Like Air Trek, TAG, AMI, Marpat, Van Nevel and so on.
With the recent statements from the new Administrator, Randy Babbit, I believe that we will see more of this type of action until it blows up in the FAA's face. Earlier this year a Federal Court ordered the FAA to pay Air Trek's legal costs resulting from the FAA's actions against Air Trek. That should have been a wakeup call to the FAA. But it appears that it has not made an impression.