The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Monday to hear the case of an Ontario, California, police officer who used his city-issued text-messaging pager to exchange hundreds of personal messages — some sexually explicit. The case carries ramifications for employee privacy rights in the workplace.
At issue is how far a government employer may go to monitor the private communications of its workers when it believes the right to use such equipment is being abused.
The lawyers for Police Sgt. Jeff Quon argue that he had a “reasonable expectation” of privacy on his official wireless two-way text-messaging pager.
