We all know in this area that the disclosure of e-mail communication between Prosecuter Douglas and former court employee, Marina Kalani has been done. Icky, distasteful correspondence, without a doubt BUT no porn in it. I guess that is a pat on their back, because....

Now, we have the issue of e-mails regarding the Chief Deputy Prosecuter, Rick Baughman, but these come with sexually graphic photos attached. Yep, this professional office passed porn, and according to the Spokesman-Review, there are over 4000 e-mails that Second District Judge John Stegner is considering disclosing between female co-workers and Chief Deputy Proscuter, Rick Baughman who resigned some time ago off the backs of taxpayers.

I have been following this very intriguing public display of professional conduct on citizen tax dollars ever since year 2005. It takes a long time to get this right or at least carry it out long enough that the general public just gets tired of it. The Spokesman-Review lawyers had to take the e-mail case to the Idaho Supreme Court just to get the legal system to comply with the law, regarding a public record's request submitted by their legal staff.

Considering that the Idaho Supreme Court has already ruled that the disclosure of the Kalani/Douglas e-mails be made, we can assume that it is a no brainer for the Baughman e-mail, except how do you disclose pornography to the public via our own judicial system? That my folks, is a really tricky deal, ya think? Anyone over 18 can buy adult pornography legally, in fact access to adult pornography is legal to disclose to minors, however distributing or producing child pornography is a crime.

I saw the accidental CD of emails that were inadvertantly given to the Spokesman-Review. Most likely, part of a clean up job, that was - oops - buried in the mix and accidently uncovered.  If there is over 4000 more e-mails of  that nature, my guess, Kootenai County, Idaho has a HUGE problem. Just where else did it go? One of those emails had a really questionable photo of a toddler with his genitals overhanging in a cereal bowl which looked deliberately posed to me. Somebody doing that to a child is sick - passing it around as a joke among legal professionals, is sicker - if that is possible.

So in favor of public interest, Judge Stenger should disclose the e-mails and let us wonder what the attachments are. I don't know how else he could to it. Too much liability. If interest is still there, a public records request by an individual can be sought for any adult porn that might want to be viewed - so you can get into the minds of the PROSECUTER and his female cohorts. Ick! However, while the printed image may be safe, one does not know if the e-mail images within the online e-mails happened to be images that also embed other images. This process is called steganography.

Looks like this local dirty little secret is out and how to break the secret is the delicate part of the matter and now that it is officially out, if anyone will really care or not?

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Idaho Supreme Court E-Mail Case - Douglas/Kalani

Then to put a real twist into this story, the Spokesman-Review caught one of their own computers just smack full of child pornography. Coincidently, the Spokesman-Review also has a terrible time with porn spammers. The last I heard - the 'accused employee' is being brought up for charges September 10th of this year, but is pleading not guilty.