The censorship nazis are at it again. This time, a 27 year veteran of the Iowa State Patrol has just been suspended for 30 days over an e-mail that he sent while off-duty and at home. According to KTEV:Then, please take a moment to drop a line with your thoughts to the Iowa State Patrol.
Folks, I really do try to avoid most of the political crap around here - there are lots who write it better than I do anyway. And there are a lot of stories I don't share, or details I change, out of respect for privacy and keeping my job details somewhat low-key.
But I will be damned if I live in a country where I am not ALLOWED to share my opinion, particularly off-duty. Particularly when it is in no way illegal, immoral or unethical.
They are just plain wrong on this one - I hope you agree.
5 comments:
WOW....we are in America right?
Wow. Just...wow.
Shameless self-promotion (well... for my blog; I didn't write this): http://cops2point0.com/2009/02/13/social-media-vs-employer-2/ It's an EXCELLENT in-depth look at policies and best practices around public employee blogging.
Not entirely on topic here - cannot believe off-duty private email resulted in such a long suspension, much less made it to the media - but it's certainly an overreaction based on 'Net fear. Perhaps administration thought they had to "act" before the email was leaked to the media?
BTW whatever happened to police unions? They find this acceptable? They've been whipped? What?
Disgusting.
I work for the state of IA, as well. The entire situation has most of us pissed off!!!
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