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June 18th, 2010
Supreme Court Sidesteps Issue of Workplace Privacy in Texting Case
In its first ruling on the privacy of workplace texting, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said that a city audit of an employee’s messages on a city-owned pager was a reasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.
The unanimous ruling in City of Ontario, California v. Quon sidestepped whether police Sergeant Jeff Quon, the employee in the case, had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his text messages, some of which turned out to be private and sexually explicit.
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