Baltimore Sun: Maryland State Workers Surfing the Internet for Pornography on State Time Click HERE to Bring Up Full Post

Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2007:

Employees of the Maryland Aviation Administration and Maryland Transportation Authority used state-owned computers in "hundreds of instances" last year to visit sexually oriented Web sites during working hours, legislative auditors found in a report released yesterday.

The auditors were able to identify more than 20 employees of the two agencies who visited the sites, some of which included nude pictures and pornography.

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The report urged transportation officials to take further steps to block access to such Web sites from their computers. The auditors said that besides being a waste of state employees' work time, visits to such Web sites could expose the state to legal liability for allowing a hostile work environment or allowing the introduction of computer viruses.

I am extremely offended by this. I put up this site at my own expense - and with considerable effort, given the difficulties of my current day-job work schedule - and these state workers don't have the decency to come visit, instead spending their time at Dahlia Does Dundalk.

Harrumph.