Thursday, June 24, 2010

Update: U.S. Supreme Court Decides Texting Case

Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision on the texting case we blogged about here and here. We will not recount the facts here, but in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld a police department's search of a police officer's personal text messages on his department-owned pager. The Supreme Court held the search did not violate his constitutional rights because it said the police department's search was reasonable. Most importantly, the Supreme Court did not outline any rules about privacy of workplace electronic communications. It seems this issue will be a case by case determination moving forward. Was this decision right?

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