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SCOTUS: Quon decided; City?s access of employee?s text messages was reasonable under O?Connor v. Ortega

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Quon decided; city’s access of employee’s text messages was reasonable under O’Connor v. Ortega, 480 U. S. 709 (1987). City of Ontario v. Quon (U.S. June 17, 2010): Petitioner Ontario (hereinafter City) acquired alphanumeric pagers able to send and receive text messages. Its contract with its service provider, Arch Wireless, provided for a monthly limit on the numberof characters each pager could send or receive, and specified that usage exceeding that number would result in an additional fee. The City issued the pagers to respondent Quon and other officers in its police department (OPD), also a petitioner here. When Quon and others exceeded their monthly character limits for several months running, petitioner Scharf, OPD’s chief, sought to determine whether the existing limit was too low, i...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).