Is Lower Merion spying students inside their home? LM official responds [Unbelievable Alert]

Norristown Times Herald ^ | 02/18/10 | Richard Ilgenfritz

[freespirited]

Big brother really is watching.

[ConservativeMind]

What a great way to get kiddie porn for the administrators!

Folks, this is a taste of the sort of government intrusion liberals, both Democrats and Republicans, desire.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

What a great way to get kiddie porn for the administrators!

What you said.

[GeronL]

Not any more unbelievable than teaching elementary school kids fisting and sex with strangers in the bushes.

[WKUHilltopper]

Wow...perverts!

[Tribune7]

An earlier thread

[Tribune7]

Another thread

A link to the lawsuit

[Roccus]

I never did trust that lighted blue circle on my monitor.

[OneWingedShark]

>I never did trust that lighted blue circle on my monitor.

Would you like to hear a song, Dave?

[maine yankee]

Every server should be siezed. School’s entire computer system, hardware and software, should be siezed.

First photo of any minor found “in a state of undress” should be grounds for arrest. Don’t wait for indictments.

Handcuffs for everybody. Start with the Superintendant and work their way down.

Everybody does the perp walk.

‘Zero tolerance’ is a bitch !

[from occupied ga]

Let them buy their own laptops and give the money back to the taxpayers who earned it - PROBLEM SOLVED

[camerongood210]

...And who was paying for these laptops?

[meadsjn]

The plaintiffs say the district’s ability to spy on them inside their homes is a violation of their privacy.

Is there any state in the union where this isn't a felony, or at least criminal misdemeanor?

[fatima]

OMGosh.

[TChris]

‘Zero tolerance’ is a bitch !

Except that it's a bitch that never turns on its owner. :-)

Liberal education employees are exempt.

[Tribune7]

Handcuffs for everybody. Start with the Superintendant and work their way down.

I said this on the other thread: the parents of the young ladies ought to especially concerned.

I'd be shocked to find out there wasn't peeping going on.

[Dubya-M-Dees]

And here’s an example of how this should be handled.. no differently!!

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2008/08/high-tech-peeping-tom-rigged-laptop-webcam-to-snap-nude-pics.ars

[iowamark]

Harriton High School
http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?m=&t=hhs&p=hhs

Lower Merion School District, Ardmore PA
http://www.lmsd.org/
Lower Merion School District
301 East Montgomery Ave.
Ardmore, PA 19003
phone 610.645.1800

[Above My Pay Grade]

If this is true, those responsible should be jailed for life.

That said, this claim smells false to me, for many reasons.

a) If it were true, I'd expect the boy and his family to file criminal charges.

b) I seriously doubt the Assistant Principal would admit to the illegal surveillance.

c) Even the lawsuit does not seem claim that she said the district got the suspect images by remotely activating the webcam. It only seems to claim that the district has the ability to remotely activate them. If she did indeed confront the boy about photographs, I think it is more likely that he took them himself, and sent them out via the district email servers, or they were accessed remotely by the district.

[Kid Shelleen]

This lawsuit sounds fishy. If you work place gives you a laptop aren't you responsible for using it properly even at home? A lot of laptops come with cameras. I have a feeling this kid did something inappropriate with computer and it somehow got back to the administration. I have a feeling if this kid did something illegal with the computer the parents would have not hesitated to sue the school district.
BTW: This is very affluent school district. I don’t see why the school district has to provide every student with a computer.