Employee E-Mail

As you can tell from our September 3,2009 Consultation Agenda an HISD lawyer attempted to prohibit employee organizations from using HISD e-mail. As a result of our efforts in Thursday's Consultation Meeting the district issued the following memo:

From: Smith, Mark
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:50 PM
To: Principals by High School; Principals by Elementary School; Principals by Middle School
Cc: Regional Superintendents/Manager; Garza, Thelma D; Garrett, Melinda; Lindsay, Richard; Pola, Michele; Hutchins-Taylor, Elneita
Subject: Use of HISD email by employee groups

Principals-

Please note that representatives of employee groups may forward and distribute emails to other employees on your campuses as long as the emails are intended for employee (including employee organizations) or school business related matters. This process is currently in place and will remain in place until the administration has an opportunity to review this practice and formalize any changes to it.


This was a great win. We must be vigilant during this administrative transition period in order to make sure our hard won rights are not eliminated. The full minutes from the September 3rd meeting will be posted soon.