Lewiston Trib: Smoochy E-mails Not Worth Fighting For

Marina Kalani did something intelligent. Finally. It was one of the few intelligent things the former Kootenai County employee has done since her kissy-kissy e-mails with county prosecutor Bill Douglas came to light two years ago. She dropped the case. The Idaho Supreme Court decided that the nearly 900 e-mails Kalani and Douglas exchanged - many of them of a sexual nature - were public records. Kalani worked with the county’s Juvenile Education and Training drug court. Douglas was her boss. Exchanging sexually suggestive banter with a boss or subordinate? Not a good idea. This is especially true if you work for the government. Every government employee knows - or bloody well should - that communications between public employees using public resources are subject to public scrutiny unless formally classified. On the surface, the Idaho Supreme Court didn’t do anything remarkable. It just reaffirmed the painfully obvious — Tom Henderson /Lewiston Tribune.

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Question: Do you think public employees and office workers have finally gotten the message that it’s not a good idea to exchange suggestive e-mails or send illicit items from the office?