1. City of Ontario v. Quon

2. City of Ontario v. Quon

3. Jeff Quon was a police officer for the Ontario, CA police department and a member of the SWAT team.

4. Oct 2001 city purchased pagers for SWAT members

5. Oct 2001 city purchased pagers for SWAT members
Prior to delivering pagers the city implemented a Computer Usage, Internet and Policy.

6. Oct 2001 city purchased pagers for SWAT members
Prior to delivering pagers the city implemented a Computer Usage, Internet and Policy.
Made clear that all means of electronic usage was eligible for auditing

7. First two billing cycles Quon was exceeded his monthly allowance.

8. First two billing cycles Quon was exceeded his monthly allowance.
Quon wrote a check to the city for the amount of text that he exceeded his allowance.

9. Quon continued to exceed his character limit.

10. Quon continued to exceed his character limit.
City decided to audit Quon and another employees text messages to
Identify whether the existing character limit was too low.

11. Review of transcripts were turned over to the internal affairs.

12. Review of transcripts were turned over to the internal affairs.
Redacted messages not sent on work time.

13. Review of transcripts were turned over to the internal affairs.
Redacted messages not sent on work time.
Quon received 456 text messages during working hours in Aug 2002

14. Quon received 456 text messages during working hours in Aug 2002
57 messages were work related
Internal affairs concluded that Quon was in violation of OPD rules and was allegedly disciplined.

15. Exchanged messages with:
Jerilyn Quon

16. Exchanged messages with:
Jerilyn Quon – separated

17. Exchanged messages with:
Jerilyn Quon – separated
April Florio – OPD employee who Quon was romantically involved.

18. Quon – Fourth Amendment Right:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”

19. The Amendment guarantees the privacy, dignity, and security of persons against certain arbitrary and invasive acts by officers of the Government.

20. City of Ontario v. Quon
Quon brought suit against the Ontario, CA PD in the US District Court for the Central District of California
Jury trial concluded that the audit of text communications was to determine the efficacy of the character limits and thus did not violate Jeff Quon’s Fourth Amendment Rights

21. City of Ontario v. Quon
Quon appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Court found that even though the search was conducted for a legitimate work-related rationale it was not reasonable in scope and found for Quon.

22. City of Ontario v. Quon
City of Ontario, CA, et al v. Jeff Quon et al was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Argued April 19, 2010 Decided June 17, Found that the search was reasonable and the petitioners did not violate the respondents’ Fourth Amendment rights.