Victoria Kim reports that a California judge denied an attempt from the union representing the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to block the L.A. Times from reporting on sheriff’s deputies. The union had alleged that the Times and a reporter were unlawfully in possession of – and would use – background investigation files containing personal information of about…
Category: Workplace
One Man’s Trash…Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant (at least, not online)
Kirsten Thompson writes: Anyone who has watched Law and Order knows that the police, both here and in the U.S., do not need a warrant to rifle through someone’s curbside recycling bin. This is because that person has abandoned their privacy interest in the contents of the bin. Does the same hold true for items in someone’s…
Employee’s private emails used as evidence to dismiss employee
Olivier Proust writes: On June 19, 2013, the French Court of Cassation ruled in favour of a company for having dismissed one of its employee’s (M. X) on the grounds that he was involved in unfair competition. M. X’s wrong-doing was based on email exchanges between him and a competitor that were found on his…
UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report May Name Names
William Dotinga reports: The University of California, Davis, may have to identify police officers involved in the pepper-spraying of student activists, an appeals court ruled. While the Federated University Police Officers Association has tried to shield their names, the court held that the state law exemption to public records access does not include names in…