Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
Last week, one of the teachers in my school told me that another
teacher may be harassing a female colleague by email. The teacher
making this report did not have many details, and it all seemed
rather speculative to me. When I pressed her about her suspicions,
she started to equivocate. She told me that she has a
"hunch" about this, and that the "victim" acts
like an abused spouse when the alleged perpetrator is present, but
she admitted that she did not have any hard evidence.
I told the teacher that I couldn't do anything on such
limited information. The teacher told me that she understands, and
she promised to keep her eyes open for more concrete evidence. But
this teacher's report got me thinking. We all have to sign off
on the Acceptable Use Policy, and that Policy expressly warns users
that they should have no expectation of privacy and that
Administration reserves
