This has been bothering me since it was brought to my attention last week. Ive chewed on it and chewed on it, and it still doesnt set right with me. Looking for some feed back here. Please tell me what your thoughts are on this... Apparently the District has set up Stillwater Schools email accounts for 3 of the 5 Board members. This means IT now has access to the activity related to those emails, with or without the Board members knowledge or approval. A person can no longer email those three Board members and have it be private from SPS. It guarantees that employees can no longer email those three members and remain private, even if they use their personal email addresses. At a time when our District employees are facing severe backlash from our Supts of the Year, I find it troubling that yet another avenue of safe communication with their Board has been taken away from them. SPS readily admits it can and does monitor students emails in real time; we have no reason to believe it does not do the same with employees (and now Board members) emails. Additionally, Im told that SPS uses Google email, so when a person is logged into stillwaterschools email, everything that can be done with Google Apps for business applies. This means they can have intstant message conversations with other users on the SPS domain, video conference with Google Hangouts, etc. It doesnt mean that they are doing this, it means the capability is now there. I am sure SPS has a very good, upstanding reason for supplying some of the Board members with these email accounts. Probably something like offering them to keep the Board from using so much storage space in their personal accounts or something. Or maybe the Board members have had these accounts all along and it was simply never made public. If that is the case, why go public now, and with only some of them? Thoughts?
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:34:01 +0000
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