Antoinette Konz reports: Some Jefferson County teachers are upset after their names were included without their knowledge in a political advertisement sent to approximately 50,000 voters by the Jefferson County Teachers Association. The advertisement – mailed by Better Schools Kentucky, the union’s political action committee – uses the name of 14 award winning teachers in Jefferson…
Category: Breaches
Ca: EMSB denies breach of voter privacy in school board election
Anne Leclair reports: The English Montreal School Board is denying that it provided a confidential list of phone numbers to one of Angela Mancini‘s candidates. The school board elections at the EMSB have been particularly hard fought this year. Our own Global reporter, Domenic Fazioli says he got a call from a candidate on his private cell number. If it…
Spurr’s slurs: a privacy breach in the public interest
Jonathan Holmes comments: It was quite a scoop for the left-leaning news website New Matilda last week: ‘Curriculum Reviewer Barry Spurr Mocks “Abos, Mussies, Women, Chinky-Poos”. ‘ But, like so much else these days, whether you think New Matilda was right or wrong to publish the emails written by Sydney University’s professor of poetics will be determined by your politics. […]…
CHP officer investigated for sending himself nude photos from suspect’s phone
Cristina Rendon reports: A Dublin-area California Highway Patrol officer is under investigation for allegedly sending nude photos of a DUI suspect from her cellphone to his own phone while the young woman was in custody, court records show. An investigator from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office is recommending that 35-year-old CHP Officer Sean…