Rep. Mark Meadows Files Bill To Address On-The Job Viewing Of Pornography On Federal Workers PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:00

RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - Responding to an Inspector General report about on-the-job viewing of pornography by federal employees, 11th District Congressman Mark Meadows has filed a bill to protect taxpayers from the abuse of their time and resources.

The Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act would prohibit federal employees from accessing pornographic or explicit material on government computers and devices.

A news release issued by Meadows noted that an Inspector General report revealed that one Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee was viewing as much as 6 hours of pornography a day in his office on his government computer. The same federal employee was found to have downloaded as many as 7,000 pornographic files onto his government computer. To date, this employee has yet to be fired and we continue to learn of similar bad actors.

“It’s appalling that it requires an act of Congress to ensure that federal agencies block access to these sites,” Congressman Meadows said in the release.

Meadows also expressed conceren about computer viruses and malware being introduced to the federal system from pornographic sites.

Mark Meadows serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee where he chairs the Subcommittee on Government Operations.

 
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