Forster v. Knapple

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• a government-issued computer when there was no policy that computer usage would be monitored and no routine access of other employees to the computer
• challenged search of defendant fire marshal’s office computer equipment was performed by the Public Safety Director, who was in charge of the police and fire departments
• employee had reasonable expectation of privacy in use of city-owned computer where there was no “city policy placing Slanina on notice that his computer usage would be monitored” and there was no “indication that other employees had routine access to his computer”
• “[G]iven the absence of a city policy placing Slanina on notice that his computer usage would be monitored and the lack of any indication that other employees had routine access to his computer, we hold that Slanina’s expectation of privacy was reasonable.”
• “[G]iven the absence of a city policy placing Slanina on notice that his computer usage would be monitored and the lack of any indication that other employees had routine access to his computer, we hold that Slanina’s expectation of privacy was reasonable.”
• employee had rea- sonable expectation of privacy in use of city-owned computer where there was no “city policy placing Slanina on notice that his computer usage would be monitored” and there was no “indication that other employees had routine access to his computer”

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