Medlock and someone else's e-mails

[RecycleMichael]

What a strange story...

http://www.kjrh.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=086c09b1-dbe5-4d7e-bc88-b695fd9cb434

City Council e-mail investigation
Posted By: Phil Berman

City Councilor Rick Westcott is accusing his predecessor of shady dealings involving confidential City Council e-mails. Chris Medlock admits he continued to get City Council e-mails forwarded to his personal e-mail address after leaving the council.

Medlock says it was mistake on the part of the city and he shut them down a month after leaving. A City Council administrator admits a member of the city's staff should have caught it sooner. He says that person no longer works there.

[guido911]

Anyone know if he commented on this issue on the radio?

[tulsacyclist]

He did. He basically said that there was an Outlook or probably Exchange rule in place that would forward all emails to dist2@tulsacouncil.org over to Medlock's home email address. This way he could work from home sometimes with ease.

Anyhow, once he was out and his position was filled he said he continued to receive forwarded emails but they all had to do with him and giving him thanks for his service, etc. He eventually said those stopped but he was still getting forwards from that address that dealt with other issues and he simply ignored those.

Not sure what else he said, I wasn't paying too much attention to it, honestly.

[guido911]

thanks tc

[tim huntzinger]

Is there a way to tell if he opened any of the emails?

[aoxamaxoa]

Deplorable...shameful.....typical....unethical.
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[AngieB]

Much ado about nothing.

I have a similar rule on my work email because I can't directly access it from home. If I found myself no longer employed here, I doubt deleting the mail rule would be at the top of my mind.

If the city was on the ball, his email account would have been deactivated as soon as he was no longer city councilor. After leaving his position as councilor, Medlock couldn't have done anything about the mail rule anyway -- it operated from within the email client/program.

[aoxamaxoa]

Certainly, the city will not allow this type of intrusion to happen in the future.

[tulsacyclist]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

Certainly, the city will not allow this type of intrusion to happen in the future.

I don't think intrusion is the word you are looking for, what happened here appears to be quite the opposite. The City continued to forward dist2@tulsacouncil.org emails to Medlock with no 'intrusion' necessary. I'd consider it spam actually.

[iplaw]

Intrusion...I think when you hand someone something it's not reallt "intrusion" is it?

[aoxamaxoa]

So, the mailman delivers me a letter intended for someone else. I open it. Read it. Use the contents to further my own interests.

OK. Intrusion maybe not.

[iplaw]

I think the emails were actually addressed to him as well...

[tim huntzinger]

So the emails were going where?  To a personal account?

[iplaw]

Simple forwarding.  Work email accounts are frequently forwarded to people so that they can work from home.  Especially when a company doesn't have a proper email exchange server that people can log onto at home or a replicating program.  I'm guessing the city isn't very technologically advanced...

[deinstein]

Do you guys really think this is that big of a deal? Seriously? I see tim huntzinger is foaming at the mouth on this one as well.