65 Percent Of City Hall Internet Traffic Goes To "Improper" Web Pages

Terry Phillis, the city's chief information officer, told City Council this afternoon that many municipal employees are visiting Internet sites that they "have no business" looking at during work.

"I will tell you that improper use of sites probably amounts to 65 percent of our traffic in the city," Phillis said during a budget hearing for the Mayor's Information Services office. "In order for us to address that, we did not have the tool to control the content of what people were downloading off the Internet. We had to go out and buy that."

Phillis added that his agency has to balance the use of that new tool with the need for anonymity for Council members. "They deserve the anonymity of their jobs not to be scrutinized in that way," Phillis said. "We are providing that kind of anonymity for Council members."

The question left unanswered:  Is PhillyClout an improper site?