(A) Employees must respect the confidentiality of other individuals’ electronic communications. Except in cases in which explicit authorization has been granted by the city, employees are prohibited from engaging in, or attempting to engage in:
(1) Monitoring or intercepting the files or electronic communications of other employees or third parties;
(2) Hacking or obtaining access to systems or accounts they are not authorized to use;
(3) Using other people’s log-ins or passwords; and
(4) Breaching, testing or monitoring computer or network security measures.
(B) No e-mail or other electronic communications can be sent that attempt to hide the identity of the sender or represent the sender as someone else.
(C) Electronic media and services should not be used in a manner that is likely to cause network congestion or significantly hamper the ability of other people to access and use the system.
(D) Anyone obtaining electronic access to other companies or individuals’ materials must respect all copyrights and cannot copy, retrieve, modify or forward copyrighted materials except as permitted by the copyright owner.
(E) Employees must also take adequate measures to ensure that city electronic media systems are not used by any other individual, including other members of employee’s household.
(F) For security reasons, employees accessing the internet must only do so through the city authorized connection and must not utilize any other connection paths to the internet.
(Ord. 08-23, passed 10-27-08)