Politics & Government

Sex and Emails: Does Public Have Right to Official’s Steamy Correspondence? Answer in the Patch Poll.

Emails are titillating for sure, but are they in the public's interest?

A District Court judge is expected to rule this week on whether embattled former Des Moines School Superintendent Nancy Sebring can block the release of additional sexually explicit emails from her school-paid email account to her former married lover.

Acknowledging she had violated the district’s technology policy, Sebring left her job in Des Moines early when some of the emails were released to the Des Moines Register. The dustup cost her a new job as superintendent of the school district in Omaha, NE.

You tell us: Does the public have a right to see these emails or would the release of more of them constitute an unfair invasion of privacy?

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