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DA Reviews Porn Email Scandal; Orders Sensitivity Training For Employees

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams says no employees in his office will be fired in connection with the inappropriate e-mails that circulated in state government.

The District Attorney released a statement Friday.

Williams says he has reviewed the e-mails in question and talked to the employees involved who at the time worked for the state attorney general's office.

The prosecutors will remain in their positions, following an investigation panel commissioned by Williams.

In a press release posted on the Office of the District Attorney's website, Williams says the panel found no evidence the three in question have sent or received inappropriate emails while in their current roles.

In August, a judge ordered the release of the emails.

Williams says in the statement, "I have spoken to the employees in question myself, face to face. I believe they have regret and remorse for the conduct of which they were a part. They recognize that the e-mail chains in which they participated were demeaning, unprofessional, and wrong."

Williams says the employees will undergo sensitivity training.

In the press release on the website, he says, "In an ordinary situation, I would not publicly discuss these matters of employee conduct, but I recognize that we are not in an ordinary situation."

He goes on to say, "Under all the circumstances, I have chosen awareness and education over termination and am directing these employees to attend sensitivity training."

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