The attorney general’s office has found no evidence that Yankee Institute improperly access or hacked the state e-mail system.
Attorney General George Jepsen started investigating at the request of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition, which alleged that the Yankee Institute obtained improper access to the state e-mail system to disseminate false information related to the tentative SEBAC agreement.
Neither of the names of people in e-mails sent to state employees are listed on the state’s central financial and administrative computer system as a state employee, according to Jepsen, and neither e-mail originated from State of Connecticut internet protocol addresses.
Each came from outside the state e-mail system and reflected a Yahoo e-mail address.
Some state employees sent e-mails from their state computers to other state employees, he said, and there was no evidence that the e-mails were transmitted in circumvention of the safeguards in place to protect the integrity of the state e-mail system.
Jepsen’s office found no evidence of the “blast” e-mails that SEBAC complained were sent.
Some individual state employees, however, used the state e-mail system to broadcast opinions about the proposed settlement, in possible violation of state and agency policies about acceptable use of the state e-mail system and the relevant state agencies promptly addressed the conduct, Jepsen said.
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“Generally, state agencies, in accordance with their personnel policies, can and should continue to address any alleged misuse of the state e-mail system by state employees,” Jepsen wrote.
