A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

In the local papers the village of Bredene (Belgium) that fired the person in question reacted to the different articles in the newspapers about the trial they had lost over firing a member of the city staff for sending too much private emails.

These new facts were mentioned in the article

* They didn't access the mailbox themselves, the facts were based upon the statistical numbers of their antispam appliance. It was clear that the member of staff had already sent about 1400 private emails from her official mailbox of wich a number were stopped by the emailsecurity appliance. The major fact that the party used was that this was putting a strain on their infrastructure (so I suppose there would be attachments in them)

advice : just block the attachment for everybody except for those that asked for a special arrangement (whitelisting) for professional reasons. Begin with all the audio-visual attachments and with the binary attachments.

* They don't talk about any warning or lighter sentence that was given before, nor about a reglementation about the use of email and internet that had to be signed before receiving those accesses. The lighter sentence is just stopping or limiting that access (you can do that with a professional proxy)

The biggest lesson from this is that you can't count on judges, you have to organize yourself the use of internet and email within your network according to your infrastructure, internal reglementation and the international and national laws and controls you have to be compliant with.