Bend over for Boseman
Posted by Michael.
So, this has been kicking around in the ‘drafts’ section for almost a month now, but it’s been a busy month and the item at hand is still worth a post. Namely, Boseman, MT coming up with the genius policy of asking prospective employees to “please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages, or memberships on any Internet based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace, etc”… and also requiring the listing of the corresponding username and password information! wow.
According to city attorney Greg Sullivan, the city has “positions ranging from fire and police, which require people of high integrity for those positions, all the way down to the lifeguards and the folks that work in city hall here. So we do those types of investigations to make sure the people that we hire have the highest moral character and are a good fit for the City.”
Note that after just a couple days after the story was leaked to local TV, the city backed off the policy, but it’s quite clear that they really had no clue what they were actually asking for… only three lines were provided for data entry, nevermind the privacy issues, etc. But, “moral character” is important stuff, so why not.