Denver, CO asked in Employment Law for Colorado

Q: Can someone legally go threw my phone and text messages

I left my phone at work. My staff leader or charge aka supervisor decided to charge my phone turn it on and then proceeded to read threw my text message conversations. In 1 conversation with a friend/coworker i make a very clear bitching joke about blowing the place up. I realize i shouldn't have made such a stupid comment. Well then this person showed them all to 2 other coworkers at the same level as he. They then decided at some time to tell my boss i was suspended and the police did an investigation and said there was no credible threat and that it was taken out of contest. This place my boss and one of these supervises have been making my life hell for over a year and trying to fire me and it took to this extant for them to finally get wgat they wanted, but my bank info my orivate things health insurance cards all that is on my phone and this totally breaks my privacy how is this ok? It's not a work phone this is my personal phone.

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A: The US Constitution protects against government intrusion, not private intrusion. Your right to privacy would be governed by case law, and you need an attorney to do research on that to see if you even have a case.

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