tmg19103

I have my Yahoo email account set-up to ask to re-log for password verification every two weeks.

Thus, I have only been asked in the past to re-log into my Yahoo email account, no matter what I do and who I email every two weeks.

This has changed recently. I have been emailing my 12 local township government officials complaints about the local police department in the recent past.

Starting about three weeks ago, EVERY time I email the commissioners I am prompted right after to re-log into my Yahoo email account with my password when this is only supposed to happen every two weeks, it has in the past happened only every two weeks, it does not happen when I email anyone else, and it only happens when I email my local government.

Any thoughts on this? My concern is that this might be some evidence that the local government is monitoring my Yahoo email account.

And, I have always had a VERY strong password that uses multiple different types of characters, caps, etc.

Billy O'Neal

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