Legislative Watch...

The state legislature just passed S.B. 426 “An Act Concerning Employee Online Privacy,” this bill prevents employers from checking your online accounts like Facebook.

The bill says in part...

(5) "Personal online account" means any online account that is used by an employee or applicant exclusively for personal purposes and unrelated to any business purpose of such employee's or applicant's employer or prospective employer, including, but not limited to, electronic mail, social media and retail-based Internet web sites. "Personal online account" does not include any account created, maintained, used or accessed by an employee or applicant for a business purpose of such employee's or applicant's employer or prospective employer.

This is important to transgender persons because many of us have online accounts where we discuss things about being transgender or we have accounts in our feminine/masculine names and not our legal name.