Tuesday, August 20, 2013

This Will Be Overturned Quickly

From the Las Vegas Sun: A Clark County district judge ruled today that schoolteachers’ work email addresses are not considered a matter of public record.
Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Judge Douglas Smith dismissed Nevada Policy Research Institute’s public records lawsuit against the Clark County School District, ruling that the “requested email database is confidential” and “not a public book or a public record.”
“The court concludes that CCSD’s interests in nondisclosure clearly outweigh the interest in access in this narrow case,” Smith said in his decision.
NPRI sued the School District after it denied several public records requests for the teacher emails. The conservative think tank has been waging an email campaign against the Clark County Education Association, sending email blasts to thousands of teachers encouraging them to drop their union memberships.  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/19/judge-rules-against-think-tank-bid-access-teacher-/
This is a senile liberal judge and this ruling won't stand.
E-mail addresses are public record, as many courts have ruled across the country.
And as a teacher, we get spam e-mail all the time, I get probably 10 a day, so what's different from this spam e-mail from NPRI's e-mail?
Finally, if a teacher got an e-mail from NPRI, all they have to do is delete it.  Is that such a big deal?  Us teachers are big boys and girls, we can handle an NPRI e-mail but apparently the teacher's union and CCSD think differently.

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