Question about Tallafierro's Texts?

[Romulus]

can't they all be traced and transmitted? Anything damaging or innocent should come out in those texts.

 

[Max Power]

can't they all be traced and transmitted? Anything damaging or innocent should come out in those texts.

I know that can be done in criminal cases, but I'm not sure how legal that is in this situation

 

[Romulus]

I remember Houston Nutt's texts were made public and that wasn't a criminal trial

 

[Sam]

So were a certain golfers.

 

[Max Power]

I remember Houston Nutt's texts were made public and that wasn't a criminal trial

I don't recall that, but I also didn't pay much attention to that incident. If so then yes they can, I'm not entirely sure how privacy laws work

 

[Max Power]

So were a certain golfers.

and I think there, the girls allowed them to be released. If both coach o and hausinger say no then i'm not sure what can be done. Again I am stating I am not sure if it is legal or not, I'm an engineer not a police officer, judge, or law maker, I just no there are cases going to the Supreme Court over employers and police officers accessing private email and text messages, even on company equipment

 

[Romulus]

I'm in medical sales and I found this via google, Freedom of Information Act is how they got Nutt's texts.
http://deadspin.com/249866/ever-wonder-who-houston-nutt-talks-to-todays-your-lucky-day

 

[Max Power]

I get that, but there is no actual text messages in there, just when they were sent and who received them. We already know there were 41 calls and 25 texts between the two, but we have no idea what those conversations entailed yet.

 

[Gutter]

The school can get them because they are officially school property, as they were sent on a school-issued phone. The phone company has records of each word written in texts, or they should anyway.

I don't know why messages themselves were not included in the FOI materials obtained from OU by the Oklahoman and Tulsa World. Maybe they didn't ask specifically for them? Or maybe OU is claiming sort of exception, though I don't know what it would be.

 

[topcat]

as they were sent on a school-issued phone.

When was that info released by the University? How do you know who owns the phone or who paid the bill? Does OT have a personal phone too?

 

[Sooner Quick]

The school can get them because they are officially school property, as they were sent on a school-issued phone. The phone company has records of each word written in texts, or they should anyway.

I don't know why messages themselves were not included in the FOI materials obtained from OU by the Oklahoman and Tulsa World. Maybe they didn't ask specifically for them? Or maybe OU is claiming sort of exception, though I don't know what it would be.

You sure they were University phones? Heard it was OT's personal cell phone.

 

[Tony]

Oronde Taliaferro's personal cell phone usage is not a matter of government record and thus not covered by FOIA. It would have been his school-issued phone.

 

[Gutter]

You sure they were University phones? Heard it was OT's personal cell phone.

I guess I don’t know. But how else would Oklahoma ship OT’s cell phone records to the NCAA and release call and text documents to the Oklahoman and World if it was not a school-issued phone? If it was OT’s phone, they couldn’t even access the records.

 

[r2b1]

If it can be proved that his personal cell phone was used for OU business, then they can get those records. At least that is the way I understand Freedom of Information Act. By no means am I am attorney, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last week....

 

[SoonerinNC]

Maybe what OU shipped to the Tulsa World has no smoking guns. If they exist they are probably on OT's private phone.

If that is the case they can only connect OT by inference. Of course, that is all the NCAA has needed before when OU is concerned.

 

[Tony]

http://normantranscript.com/headlines/x433570929/Former-OU-aide-linked-to-financial-adviser

Records show 41 calls and 25 text messages between Taliaferro’s school-issued cell phone to either Hausinger’s former office number or a cell phone that voice mail identified as Hausinger’s between May 12, 2009, and March 9 of this year.

 

[boksooner]

In an 11 month span, there was an average around 2 texts and 4 calls per month? That doesn't seem like much.

 

[Max Power]

In an 11 month span, there was an average around 2 texts and 4 calls per month? That doesn't seem like much.

Its not very much, and the fact remains nobody on this board or in the media really knows what they pertained to. We can speculate and hypothesize all we want, but the FACT is NOBODY outside of Orlande and Hausinger know what was said or typed

 

[sooner333]

In an 11 month span, there was an average around 2 texts and 4 calls per month? That doesn't seem like much.

True. They weren't equally spread out though.