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I am the Civil Rights Manager for a state agency in Idaho. In HR Executive Special Report "Employee Privacy Rights & Wrongs", pages 11 and 12, there is reference to the fact that several states have laws that prohibit employers from opening private mail addressed to their employees. Idaho is listed as one of the states. I asked our legal department to find the actual legal reference for me, however they could not find it. Can you give me the legal reference for Idaho Statute referenced in this article?
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  • SystemSystem 5,885 Posts
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    It took a bit of searching, but here you go:

    TITLE 18
    CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
    CHAPTER 67
    COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY
    18-6718. OPENING SEALED MAIL OR PACKAGES. (1) Every person who willfully
    opens or breaks the seal, or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed mail
    not addressed to such person without being authorized to do so either by
    the writer or by the person to whom it is addressed, and every person who,
    without the like authority, publishes any of the contents of such mail
    knowing the same to have been unlawfully opened, is guilty of a
    misdemeanor.
    (2) For the purposes of this section, "mail" means any written
    communication or package that is designed to be carried by the United
    States postal service or any other federally regulated carrier of packages,
    parcels or letters.

    James Sokolowski
    Senior Editor
    M. Lee Smith Publishers
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