{"id":12062,"date":"2014-06-16T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2015-03-07T09:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:04:43","slug":"tx4-no-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy-in-public-officials-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12062","title":{"rendered":"TX4: No reasonable expectation of privacy in public official&#8217;s emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public office holder\u2019s official email accounts under the state public records act. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/09pdf\/08-1332.pdf\">Quon<\/a> is distinguished, and the email policies show no expectation of privacy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=abb2819b-54d1-4b95-bf3b-9370276cbd66&#038;MediaID=07ee5617-5950-4e09-9fd1-24f0da214d03&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Adkisson v. Abbott<\/a>, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 6411 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin June 13, 2014), modified on rehearing on other grounds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=85e2e776-b63e-461d-9c09-8ffbe6d448f8&#038;MediaID=0c83237f-f81f-4d5f-8261-304397ad17ef&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Adkisson v. Paxton<\/a>, 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 2167 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin March 6, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The informant hearsay in this case was sufficient to cause a search warrant to issue, and the officers get immunity for executing it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/14a0420n-06.pdf\">Regets v. City of Plymouth<\/a>, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 11076, 2014 FED App. 0420N (6th Cir. June 10, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public office holder\u2019s official email accounts under the state public records act. Quon is distinguished, and the email policies show no expectation of privacy. Adkisson v. Abbott, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,40,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail","category-informant-hearsay","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}