Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Teacher e-mails made public - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 Apr 08
  

  Art Gelwicks

  Teacher emails released to "make sure they're doing their jobs."

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  • "Based on our interpretation of the current state law, the public interest demands those e-mails be released."   

     

    Bubolz said in July he made the request to see if the teachers were doing their job "... the way it's supposed to be done."
  • "People will know this decision is out there," Jonen said. "The effect will be any public employee that does a personal e-mail at work is subject to having that released."
  • "There's no misconduct at all; they don't want the public to feel they were misusing resources," she said. "These are e-mails they wrote to their friends, spouse or kids. It's a little unsettling they will be for public view."

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  Matt Clausen

  Almost a year after asking for the documents, a Vesper man's request will be honored for e-mail messages from the workstations of five Wisconsin Rapids School District teachers.

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  "People will know this decision is out there," Jonen said. "The effect will be any public employee that does a personal e-mail at work is subject to having that released."
  
  Unsure of the exact number, Crist said there are "quite a few" e-mail messages that will be provided as part of the request.
  
  While they have been fighting against the release of the documents, the teachers wanted to emphasize to the community they did nothing wrong, Jonen said.
  
  "There's no misconduct at all; they don't want the public to feel they were misusing resources," she said. "These are e-mails they wrote to their friends, spouse or kids. It's a little unsettling they will be for public view."

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