Gay teacher fired after sex tape leaked by hacker

Surely that counts as unfair dismissal. I think he would definitely have a court case considering that he'd done nothing wrong. It's disgusting that someone would do that consciously knowing that they're ruining someone's life.

At the same time it was a mistake on his part to upload it to cloud storage which is notoriously insecure.

A gay teacher in Arkansas has been fired after a homophobic hacker broke into his DropBox account, which had a video made by the teacher of him with another consulting adult male, was linked to other teachers and students at the school.

What is shocking is that this teacher was the victim of a crime, he had done nothing wrong. He was found to have done nothing wrong by the Arkansas Department of Education, but the school fired him anyway (after filing ethics charges against him with the Department, which were found to be baseless)

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/11/gay-teacher-sacked-as-hacker-posts-sex-tape-to-school-website/

Tbh would you want to continue working there, if I was a teacher and knew my sex tape was leaked to all my students and colleagues I'd just look for work elsewhere

Americans tend to have few employment rights. Most American employment is "at will", which means the employer can dismiss the employee at any time and for any reason.

Also, it is not illegal in the State of Arkansas to fire someone for reasons that tend to discriminate on the basis of sexuality. I'd say his best prospect is that he will be picked up by another school in a more liberal state

That seems a little bit victim blamey, in the circumstances.

That seems a little bit victim blamey, in the circumstances.

A sex tape was leaked as in a sex tape. Ya know, people have sex on camera? I'm sure if he was straight or made a straight sex tape he would've been fired too. Got nothin to do with the fact he's gay. Teachers with any history like that get fired too. Although it isn't his fault it was leaked, the fact it was leaked and open to the public make the school look bad to still have him. Its like having a lowkey porn star as a teacher at your school. It ruins your reputation to have them represent a teacher. This reminds of a story of this woman whose ex bf made a sex tape of her and released as revenge then she couldn't get a decent job and rejected multiple times. Not sayin its his fault but it isn't "homophobic" at all the fire a gay teacher with a leaked sex tape.

Straight or gay, he would've been fired.

You're so bananas it's not even worth responding

It is not homophobic or discriminatory to fire him. It is just prudish. The exact same action would be taken if a heterosexual teacher had a sex taped leaked. I think it is reasonable for the school to assert that distributing a sex tape of any faculty member, automatically disqualifies them from working in that district. The distraction to the learning environment would be substantial if they were to remain.