Tag: text messages

Supreme Court Rules Public Employee’s Text Messages Not Private

By HR Hero Jun 17, 2010 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jun 17, 2010

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public employer did not violate an employee’s constitutional privacy rights by searching his personal (and often sexually explicit) text messages that were sent and received on his employer-issued pager. The Backstory The City of Ontario, California, issued pagers that could send and receive text messages to Ontario […]

U.S. Supreme Court to Address Privacy of Text Messages

By HR Hero Dec 14, 2009 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Dec 14, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would hear arguments in a case involving sexually explicit text messages sent by employees using their employer-provided pagers. The issue for the court is whether the employer violated its employees’ privacy rights by reading the messages. The case involved several police officers with the Ontario, California, […]