According to JCW’s technical advisors, numerous managing entities in the courts have programmed their proxy servers and appliances to notify them in the event you visit us here at JCW and in some cases we can detect them detecting your visit to us.
Proxy servers and appliances serve numerous purposes at internet gateways and nearly every court in the state utilizes them, including the AOC. Some of the functions proxy servers and appliances can serve is to block access to certain web sites. However, the devices our technical advisors are warning us about are those that are set up to send a notification when a web site is visited. In most cases, this enables a manager to be promptly notified when you visit a web page and monitor your activity. In some cases, these devices can be set up to monitor actual web pages visited in real time or in playback mode. In other cases, managers can log into your current session remotely and monitor the screen in front of you in real time.
We don’t know what your computer usage policy is in the place that you work but before visiting us here at JCW, you might wish to ensure that visiting us, even at lunch time, does not violate your computer usage policy.
One last word of advice from our technical advisors:
When using any government computer or network, no expectation of privacy is to be assumed.
Judicial Council Watcher 
Rifleman
May 23, 2011
yauba.com
katy
May 25, 2011
Hey JCW,
Maybe you need a Facebook page.
24 May, 2011 National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Says Workers Should Not Have Lost Jobs for Facebook Postings
“The National Labor Relations Board said earlier this month that a non-profit in organization in Buffalo was wrong to fire five workers for Facebook postings that criticized working conditions, and disclosed that it has more than two dozen cases involving worker complaints aired on the social media site.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the NLRB complaint against Hispanics United of Buffalo reaffirms the agency’s position in a prior case that labor law permits employees to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment with co-workers and others—including postings on social-media sites. (WCxKit)
In the recent complaint, an employee of Hispanics United who was slated to meet with management regarding working conditions posted on Facebook a co-worker’s allegation that employees didn’t assist the nonprofit’s clients enough, the NLRB said. That post attracted responses from other employees who defended their work and blamed conditions like work loads and staffing issues. When Hispanics United learned about the postings, it released the five employees who participated, stating their comments were harassment of the employee originally mentioned in the post, the NLRB remarked.
The NLRB claimed the Facebook discussion was “protected concerted activity” under the National Labor Relations Act. The earlier case was brought to the agency by a union representing an employee of ambulance company American Medical Response of Connecticut.
In that incident, the employee posted comments regarding her supervisor and responded to further comments from her co-workers. That case was settled in February when the company agreed to revamp its rules to ensure they don’t restrict workers rights. A separate, private settlement was reached between the company and the employee, though terms weren’t disclosed. (WCxKit)
According to NLRB spokeswoman, at least three other complaints have been issued from regional offices since the American Medical Response case. All of those appear to have been settled, she added.
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http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/blogwire/nlrb_says_workers_should_not.html
wendy darling
May 25, 2011
Important note: these employees posted on Facebook on their own time, not at work. If they had been posting on Facebook from work, from their employer’s computer, it is highly questionable it would have been “protected activity.”
Also, the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to public employees, whether in California or any other state.
Long live the ACJ.
Mrs. Kramer
May 25, 2011
Good points, Wendy Darling. Surely though, if any employee in the state of California were wanting to expose waste, fraud, cronyism and corruption on Facebook (or anywhere else) from their home computers, the honorable judicial branch would do everything possible to reward them for their good deeds and protect truth without fear for the public good. Right?
Because if the courts in California think it is not their duty to promote and protect truth, then whose responsibility do they think it is and what do they see as their purpose for existence?
It would seem logical that if a judicial branch wouldn’t encourage and protect truth without fear, then the people must speak to protect against the threats to Democracy caused by the derelection of duty of the judicial branch, itself. The longer these types of situations are allowed to fester, the more deeply seeded and wide spread the deceit becomes. Lack of punishment for deceit encourages others to think it acceptable societal behavior. Indifference to stop it breeds deceit.
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King
Mrs. Kramer
May 25, 2011
SEC Final Rules for Implementing the Whistleblower Provisions of Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 – COMING SOON!
Approved May 25, 2011 by a vote of 3-2
Dodd-Frank Corporate Whistleblower Bill passes.
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1167&Itemid=1167
antonatrail
May 25, 2011
Thanks for the whistleblower cite. “Honesty without fear.” I like it! I’m retired for six years and am still fearful.
Citizen Ant
Mrs. Kramer
May 25, 2011
You are welcome. I have been blowing the whistle of a scientific fraud in our workers’ comp policy for six years and am now blowing the whistle of how Justice McConnell of the CJP along with Justice Huffman of the JC have aided it to continue by being willing participants in a malicious, strategic litigation carried out by criminal means (CCP 425.19).
Maybe I should be, but I am not scared one bit. The truth always comes out in the end if one is tenatious enough to make it happen. And…as the saying goes, “If you gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough!”