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Supreme Court rules in favor of California police chief who read employee's texts
The Supreme Court rejected a broad right of privacy for workers Thursday and said supervisors may read through an employee's text messages if they suspected that work rules were being violated. In a 9-0 ruling, the justices said a police chief in Ontario, Calif., did not violate the constitutional rights of an officer when he read the transcripts of sexually explicit text messages sent from the officer's pager provided by his employer. In this case, the high court said, the police chief's reading of the officer's text messages was a search, but it was also reasonable. Source: LA Times