Supreme Court to Decide Privacy Rights of Texting Government Employees

Communications between officers, in the form of SMS txt messages, on their government phones may be "private."

Supreme Court to Decide Privacy Rights of Texting Government Employees: "The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police officers have a constitutional right to privacy in their personal text messages sent on city-owned pagers. The Supreme Court will review a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found the officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the messages, the Associated Press reports. One officer, Ontario, Calif., police Sgt. Jeff Quon, had sent and received hundreds of personal messages, including some that were sexually explicit, according to the city. Quon and three fellow officers allege a Fourth Amendment violation by the city of…"

CB radios are not private at all. But, police use them to communicate, unrecorded. This is as opposed to their government issued radio systems which are recorded.

Fair?