Another Federal Employee Caught Watching Porn at Work – By Brandi Vincent (Next Gov) / Jan 2 2020
The employee admitted watching adult pornography at work but retired amid a government investigation.
A Bureau of Land Management employee used his work computer to access adult pornography inside a government office, a federal watchdog recently unveiled.
The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General sent an investigative report to BLM’s director in late November regarding the inappropriate use of a government device, following an accusation that an employee accessed child pornography on an agency-issued computer.
“The employee admitted viewing adult pornography on multiple occasions but denied any involvement with child pornography,” the OIG wrote in a summary of the investigative report released Tuesday. “The employee said he knew that [Interior’s] policy prohibited his actions.”
According to the OIG, the employee retired during the investigation and no evidence of child pornography was revealed. But the summary includes few details into what else the OIG found.
While the department has rules in place barring the in-house access to porn, this is not the first time a porn-watching employee breached them within one of Interior’s components. In October 2018, the IG disclosed that an employee at the U.S. Geological Survey with “an extensive history of visiting adult pornography websites” used an agency-issued computer to visit around 9,000 adult video sites—and subsequently infected USGS networks with malware linked to Russia. That employee also retired.
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