!!!Police Officer Forced to Resign Over Old MySpace Pics!!!

Abigail Keller -- a 27-year-old, full-time reserve officer on Altoona, Iowa's police force -- resigned over controversy surrounding questionable pictures posted to her MySpace account. Keller was in her fifth month of reserve duty, the Des Moines Register reported today, when a local businessman showed print-outs of the page to a city officer. Police Chief John Gray, testifying at Keller's recent hearing for unemployment benefits, said: "In one photograph, she is displaying her naked buttocks or mooning the person who is taking the picture. In another, she is performing simulated sex acts on both males and females." In response, Keller said that the mooning picture was taken down before she was hired, and that the "simulated sex acts" constituted her making "kissy faces" and sticking her tongue out with a group of girls at a bar.
Arguing that she thought her profile was not publicly viewable, Keller did wind up receiving the unemployment benefits. Gray believed the most troubling aspect of the photos to be Keller's being shown in her uniform, testifying that "she was associating her conduct with the police department." Again and again, Facebook and MySpace have proven that public servants need to be extra careful about what they post. But, at the same time, it appears Keller was just being a 27-year-old gal. She isn't calling the police chief a serial masturbator, or seriously breaking moral and ethical code. She just made a bad call.