WASHINGTON — In its first ruling on the privacy of workplace texting, the U.S. Supreme Court today said a city audit of an employee’s messages on a city-owned pager was a reasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.
The unanimous ruling in City of Ontario, California v. Quon sidestepped whether police Sgt. Jeff Quon, the employee in the case, had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his text messages, some of which turned out to be private and sexually explicit.
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