Three state education employees fired for lewd e-mail

Three state education employees fired for lewd e-mail

"Three state education employees fired for lewd e-mail

Associated Press report 04/26/05

TALLAHASSEE - Three state Education Department employees have been fired and a fourth has been told she will be fired for sending lewd e-mails to colleagues. "

"'This is basically a case of people sending very offensive e-mails to one another on government computers,' state Education Commissioner John Winn said Monday. 'This has been the most troubling thing to me since I've been commissioner.' "

Editorial Note: Is it possible that the abysmal performance of our Florida School System should trouble him more than naughty words?

Police Data Sharing Is A Work In Progress

By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek
April 25, 2005

URL: Info Week

"The federal government's disclosure this month that it won't continue funding the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, closes a chapter on a controversial law-enforcement data-sharing pilot project created in the wake of 9/11. Three years and $12 million later, just two states will continue using the technology, as other projects compete to meet the goal of better sharing of crime data across state lines."

U.S. Postal-order Scams Surging

U.S. postal-order scams surging

"U.S. postal-order scams surging
By Tom Zeller Jr. The New York Times

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005

Phony checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now, the authorities say they are noticing a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: U.S. postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail inbox."

University Fires Employees for Porn

The Cavalier Daily

"Computer porn leads to U.Va. employee firings - University releases warning against viewing pornography on University computers; employee arrested for possession of child pornography

Alex Sellinger, Cavalier Daily Senior Associate Editor

The University publicly issued a warning and dismissed two employees this semester after fellow employees reported they had used University computers to view and download pornography. A Dining Services employee was arrested in February and charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, the University reported in its warning issued April 11. "