Posted on 12/11/2006 12:38:04 PM PST by sbMKE
Supreme Court to hear teacher porn issue
Madison - The state Supreme Court will decide whether pornographic images found on the school computer of a fired Cedarburg teacher should be made public, attorneys in the case said today.
Robert Zellner, a Cedarburg High School teacher who was fired in January for viewing pornography on his computer, filed a court action to stop 1,500 "adult images" found on his computer from being released. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had requested the release under the state open records act.
An Ozaukee County Circuit Court judge ruled that the images are a public record, but Zellner appealed. The state appeals court made no decision, instead asking the Supreme Court to take the case.
Zellner was fired after evidence showed he viewed pornography on his computer for 67 seconds on a Sunday, although he has since testified that he viewed pornography on his computer several times previously. His lawyer said Zellner is fighting release of the images because it is not clear how many of them were accessed intentionally.
Zellner also is fighting in court to get his job back. An arbitrator ruled that the Cedarburg School Board should have reprimanded Zellner but not fired him, based on the 67-second incident, but the board has refused to do so and has spent more than $100,000 in legal fees on the case.
The Supreme Court gave deadlines for the parties to file court papers in the case but it is not known when a decision will be issued.
"I never had sex with that computer!"
this guy probably has a really freaky fetish and the school board and union DO NOT want it to be known publicly what sort of a teacher they had been exposing the kids to
I use Firefox also. A jpg on this forum opens within fractions of a second. However, many of the jpgs available in binary groups range from 200,000 to 500,000 bytes or more. They may take from 1 to 3 seconds each.
Ridiculous. Anything he downloads using the taxpayers' machine, bandwidth, and time is de-facto public information.
I missed your earlier post. 'Duh' on my part. Makes sense now!
If he's a union member the union is required to represent him or face a law suit. How strongly it represents him is another matter.
If he was a non-union member working for a school that was represented by a union the union would also be required to represent him.
Truth of the matter is the more the guy talks, the more it's becoming evident that he's lying about his "only 67 seconds" of porn surfing at school. I'm assuming the 1,500 number is being floated to bolster public opinion against the guy in the face of the "one simple mistake" crowd. A mistaken wrong turn on the web (say to whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov) can land all sorts of ugly stuff on your work computer, sure, but 1,500 images takes a long time regardless of how you "stumble onto it."
The problem this case underscores is that teachers in these parts (and I assume most) don't get fired for anything they do. And with the government's virtual monopoly on education, parents have no choice regarding teachers - whether they be porn surfers, agendists of any stripe or just plain incompetent.
She's a piece of work of art.
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