Susannah brings up a good point. Those officers went through a process and their Chief imposted a sanction. Now what? They have to worry about being canned while doing their high-risk job? I hope the port hires a fair and respected expert to make the right recommendation.

One thing I don't understand. If these authorities and other public entities are so concerned about what their employees receive in their emails, why the hell are they allowed such access to the internet in the first place? Anyone can send me lude jokes and profane pictures in an email and I wouldn't know, until I open that email, what exactly is inside of it. If you open it, you're busted. They can tell if you opened it and can now really point fingers at you.

I get jokes like that all the time. Some of them even have some nudity in them. It doesn't mean that I think they're funny. It doesn't make me a racist. It doesn't mean that I am a pervert. It's just the typical internet crap that we all have to sort through every day.

This further independant investigation is a big waste of taxpayer dollars and time. What a waste! Spend that money on something useful, like an "internet screener" for the port. Wow!!! Now we've created a new job for someone.

I agree with the comments above. Additional investigations are a waste of tax-payer dollars. All work place's deal with these issues, take a look at your e-mail. Give me a break!

I think it's a joke that people were so surprised about this. I spent 14 years in the military and that stuff happens on a daily basis on government computers. It's not supposed to happen but it does. The Seattle port police isn't the first place to have this happen and it won't be the last. There are people in place that are supposed to monitor the usage of government computers and monitor the content of what people are looking at. However, those people are usually the worse ones about breaking the rules when it comes to computers. Wake up America!