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Reminder that Your Emails Aren’t Private

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The Daily Bruin carries a story today about a demand for a UCLA professors emails. Excerpt: Two state senators have accused UCLA of withholding the records of a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences from the public, the most recent development in a conflict that has lasted about three years.  The two California senators – Minority Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) and Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) – started corresponding with UCLA about Professor John Froines’s public records earlier this year, when they noticed UCLA had not disclosed all of Froines’s emails in a past records request.Controversy over the records…

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Previous Posts on Whistleblower Case and Removal of Faculty from a State Board Now Seem Connected

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Note: There have been previous separate posts on this blog which are now connected by the item excerpted below. For the earlier posts, see: http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/faculty-from-ucla-and-other.html http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2010/08/ucla-researcher-firing-questioned-in.html————–Researcher files whistle-blower retaliation complaint against UCLA (excerpts) September 7, 2010 | Erica Perez | California Watch A UCLA environmental health sciences researcher whose appointment was not renewed this year has filed a whistle-blower retaliation complaint against the university, saying he’s being punished for publishing politically incorrect research findings and for previous whistle-blowing against colleagues. UCLA officials had planned to end epidemiologist James Enstrom’s appointment August 30 but extended it until March 2011 after outside…

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Law gives fired whistle-blowers right to sue UC

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Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, July 17, 2010 University of California employees who believe they have been fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle on improper activities can, for the first time, sue for damages under a new law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor signed the bill into law Thursday over the objections of UC administrators. Until now, UC employees could complain about retaliation only to the university’s own administrative review panel, but could not go to court as other state employees may do. Employees of California State University and the community college system also…