D.C. to More Closely Monitor Web Surfing

January 24, 2008 - 12:35pm

WASHINGTON - Now that 41 District workers have been fired or suspended after visiting pornographic Web sites on government computers, the city is cranking up the technology to keep an eye on all government computers.
"We have a system for tracking people's use and redirecting people's computers away from those sites, to get people back to work, serving the citizens of the District of Columbia," says D.C. City Administrator Dan Tangherlini.

An internal investigation by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer revealed 20,000 hits from pornographic Web sites on the nine fired employees' computers in 2007.

Of the fired employees' estimated 200 work days a year, the investigation showed that they visited pornographic Web sites 100 times per day, Mayor Adrian Fenty says.
Employees from 18 city agencies, including the Office of the Attorney General, were accessing pornographic or sexual Web sites.
D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles says the employees' actions are egregious.

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