Public Employees Are Bound by Rulings Articulated in Ortega That

Public employees are bound by rulings articulated in Ortega that specifically evaluates:

A) Whether the employee's expectation of privacy was consistent with the operational realities of the workplace (i.e. the exclusivity of the workspace, accessibility to workplace by others, nature of employee's duties, knowledge of search procedures or practices, and reason for search.
B) Whether the invasion of the employee's Fourth Amendment protections was reasonable when balanced against governmental interest in the intrusion (reasonable suspicion is sufficient in the investigations involving work-related employee misconduct.
C) Whether the search was reasonable at inception and was the subsequent scope of the search related to the original justification of the search.
D) All of the above.