Monitoring of Judges’ Internet Use to Continue
From Times Staff Reports
Federal judges and their employees should be blocked from downloading music and should still be monitored for Internet misuse, a new report recommends.
A committee of judges refused to support an end to ongoing Internet monitoring, as members of a San Francisco-based appellate court had requested.
In a compromise, the panel endorsed the prominent display of Internet policy each time computer users log on.
Judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco protested the monitoring in May by disabling the software. They say the practice is improper and probably illegal because some employees are not aware of it.
