Liability on employee email usage

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Liability on employee email usage

by David Lesher :: Rate this Message:

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This being where all the smart lawyers hang out.....

So a 501c3 has a number of low-wage field employees. They are
funded by states but are on 501c3 payroll, etc. They talk to
various folks inc. state agencies.

$BOSS won't let me issue them a 501c3name.org email address, as he
thinks he is liable if/when they do Bad Things with such address.
He's not clear on if this means work-usage or non-work usage.

This means major issues with their free [Yahoo/Google/Hotmail] accounts
getting blocked by spam filters, etc.  

Engineer me thinks he has liability regardless of what email they use
for work; and he could cut exposure by written/signed policy that
work address is for work period.

Query: is there any case law on misuse of email and liability
with same?




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