QMI Agency reports: Modern technology and teenage tomfoolery came to a head Tuesday in a Calgary-area courtroom. A “naive” teenage boy, with his embarrassed parents seated behind him, stood before a provincial court judge to admit a “prank” made him a criminal. The teen pleaded guilty to two voyeurism-related charges after he used his BlackBerry…
Category: Youth & Schools
Parents sue Springfield schools over lockdowns and searches
Chris Coughlin reports: Parents sued the Springfield Public Schools, saying the repeated “mass lockdowns of public schools,” during which sheriff’s officers search virtually everything – backpacks, lockers, and students’ bodies, if the police dogs “alert” on them – are unconstitutional. When the parents complained, they say the school board said it was their “policy” to…
2 Arrested In Alleged Rutgers Sex Spy Scandal
Shocking allegations of spying levied against pair of 18-year-old students exploded on the Rutgers University campus on Tuesday. Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro and Molly W. Wei of Princeton were charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly secretly placing a camera in another student’s dorm room and transmitting a sexual encounter over the Internet. Middlesex County…
Maine: Student SSN Collection for Tracking On Hold After Data Breach
I’ve previously covered the new law in Maine that asks parents to provide their children’s Social Security Numbers so that the state can track the students. A number of school boards had the wisdom to write to the parents and basically say, “Look, we have to ask you for it, but we encourage you to…