10 CYF staff disciplined in email porn inquiry

Ten staff at Children, Youth and Family Services have been disciplined after a Government-wide investigation into the police computer porn scandal.

Seven workers at the Crown's electronic spy agency were also investigated during Operation Insight, prompted by an audit of police computers in late 2004 that found several hundred officers with more than 5000 sexually explicit emails.

The Dominion Post reported that one staff member from the Government Communications Security Bureau was sacked last year for misusing a computer but no action was taken against the seven workers

Details issued under the Official Information Act show 10 staff at CYF and one each in Foreign Affairs and the Social Development Ministry were disciplined.

Operation Insight extended to all departments and state-owned enterprises and was initiated after police found that 80 of the 5000 sexually explicit emails on their computers had been sent from other public bodies.

The emails took up a fifth of total police computer capacity.

Four Social Development workers were implicated, but a spokeswoman said three had left by the time the inquiry began.

Foreign Affairs and Trade said one worker received a written warning for having inappropriate images on his computer.

- NZPA