Judge rules man can see state emails between wife and paramour. Cheaters BEWARE.

Judge Phillip J. Shepherd, of the Franklin Circuit Court (I was in his court yesterday), has ruled that the state must turn over to a husband emails his wife exchanged with her paramour. The judge WISELY saw to it that personal emails (that have nothing to do with state business) are NOT protected by any exceptions to the Open Records Act.

Good for judge Shepherd. Now there is a WARNING to state employees who want to conduct illicit affairs by using state computers to facilitate them: THE LAW DOES NOT PROTECT YOU.

Here is judge Shepherd's decision.

What is puzzling to me is why the state did NOT discipline the employees involved -- if for nothing, then at least for using state (public) resources for private.