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in a nutshell, school administrators tried punishing a kid for something he did at home.....they saw him by covertly activating the webcam on school-issued laptops.

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school ... udent.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/0 ... -broadens/

WTF!!!

The good news is that I believe that the plaintiff will prevail in this case. The bad news is that the taxpayer will foot the bill and no individual(s) will be held accountable. If this happened in a private company you'd be out the door for bringing the idea up...

A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now - and potentially much more later - to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district's webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to be paid for work that led to a preliminary injunction against the district in May. And he said Haltzman could submit the rest of his bills when the case ended. The injunction banned Lower Merion school employees from activating webcams on students' district-issued laptops without their consent and required new policies governing the use of technology. A spokesman for Lower Merion said school officials were "deeply disappointed" in the decision. Haltzman called the ruling fair and appropriate. The order seemed to end a bitter skirmish over fees in an ongoing legal saga that could cost district taxpayers several million dollars. Each side pledged Monday to continue working toward a settlement, but each also slammed the other.

Still unresolved is the underlying lawsuit Haltzman filed for Harriton High School student Blake Robbins and his parents, claiming Lower Merion staff members spied on students through the webcams. The district contends it activated the software only when laptops were lost or missing.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local ... 0_000.html

that is so fucked. I bet those pervs were hoping to catch the kids jerking off or undressing or some shit. It is a shame that the people responsibe will not be held accountable

thats bullshit......like the have to "ban" spying on the kids with the cameras......WTF, so would it have been OK to do had the judge not banned it?

dumb fucks trying to punish the students for their at-home behavior.......fucking morons....they should be strung up by the BALLS and BEATEN.

And these are the kind of people educating the children, and then gov steps on home schooling. idiots.