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E-mail (1) that is sent using district managed accounts, OR using district equipment OR on district time is in no way to be considered private information. State and federal tax dollars are used in each of these instances, making the information and use of such e-mail, by law, public information. (See RCW 42.17.250 et seq.)
Please read the examples of inappropriate uses listed below. If district users are found to have engaged in any of these types of uses, the district may be subjected to severe penalties and/or fines.
· For Profit: At no time, can e-mail be used for personal profit. This means that you can't advertise the sale or rent of any personal property or promote any personal type of business venture, which may result in non-school related profit. For example, you can promote the 6th grade fund-raiser, but you cannot sell candy bars for your church. You can advertise Evening Italiano, but you cannot advertise to sell your litter of German Shepard puppies. If you have a use that you feel is questionable, please get permission from your building administrator prior to sending.
· Political Use: E-mail may not be used to promote any political point of view or candidate. This includes Federal, state, local, levy, union, etc... While, it is okay to say, "Don't forget to get out and vote!" It is not okay to say, "Vote YES!" or "Vote for So and So!"
· Personal Use: List-serves and on-line services that you sign up for using your district e-mail account must be work related. Anything that you sign up for using your district e-mail account must be work related. Please keep personal use of the internet, including email to a minimum. You might think of it as you would any of the equipment and materials that have been purchased for your use, by the district (examples include paper, furniture, markers, vehicles.) It is not acceptable for an employee to use them for non-work related projects.
Under personal use, we must also consider students and their uses of e-mail and the Internet. Unless you have assigned such use, students are not to be using district equipment to access personal e-mail accounts, chat, any form of streaming audio or video or the Internet in any form recreationally.
· Profanity, Pornography and Hate mail: At no time may e-mail be used as a conduit for profanity, hate mail, or transmitting sexually explicit material. The concept here, is don't send anything over the e-mail that you wouldn't want printed on the front page of the Yakima Herald Republic with your name attached. One of the worst culprits is the forwarding of inappropriate jokes. Another is the "flame" or angry reply to a message. Be careful, and remember that anything you send has your e-mail address and your name attached to it. What would you like to see made public.
· Chain Mail: Do not forward (pass-on), or buy into these spurious requests.
Several examples of electronic chain mail include...
--- Bill Gates will send a million dollars to the one-millionth user who replies...
--- The sick child in England that everyone is told to send a greeting to...
--- Or, how about the many, assorted virus warnings that circumnavigate the
globe. (If you are concerned about a virus warning that you have received, please
forward it on to me or your TSS and we will investigate its authenticity.)
For further information about appropriate use of district e-mail and the Internet,
see: Naches Valley School District Policy 2314P - Instruction -- Acceptable
Use Guidelines
(1) E-mail, as discussed in this document, is defined as that which is sent
using district accounts, on district equipment OR on district time.