Dan O’Sullivan reports: The state government’s proposal to increase the search and seizure powers of teachers and principals outside school grounds has been met with a mixed response from local schools and police. The legislation being debated in Parliament will allow principals and teachers to search for weapons in parents’ cars in an attempt by…
Category: Youth & Schools
Tyler Clementi’s parents want roommate prosecuted, not severely punished
Kelly Heyboer reports: Six months after their son’s suicide, the parents of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi said for the first time yesterday they do not want his former roommate to receive a “harsh punishment” for allegedly using a webcam to spy on the freshman’s intimate encounter with another man. But the family does want…
Texas Teen Scores Legal First in ‘Sexting’ Privacy Case
Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…
UK: Parents flush out cameras from school toilets over privacy fears (updated)
Scott McAngus reports: Two secondary schools in West Lothian are set to be forced to remove CCTV cameras from the pupil toilets after concerns were raised by parents. West Calder High and Whitburn Academy have cameras covering the sink areas in toilets, but West Lothian Council is reviewing its guidelines following “a small number of…