Joy Powell reports: A Burnsville man is suspected of taking hundreds of photos of unwitting girls’ inner thighs and panties at public libraries, parks, the Minnesota Zoo and in his neighborhood, court documents say. Dean K. Lindo, 38, is charged with five counts of “interference with privacy,” a felony, for allegedly holding a camera and…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Facebook unveils child safety ‘panic button’
Daniel Emery reports: Facebook has announced it will allow a “panic button” application on its social networking site. The button, aimed at children and teenagers, will report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook. […] Ceop, the government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders, called…
Big Brother row as ‘food police’ secretly photograph schoolchildren’s packed lunches
Sarah Harris: Teachers have used ‘Big Brother’ tactics to secretly spy on children’s lunch boxes, it has been revealed. They have covertly photographed pupils’ packed lunches over the last six months and analysed the contents. Staff have awarded marks to the food and then revealed their findings to outraged parents, offering them advice on how…
Complaint: East Haven student’s records breached
Mark Zaretsky reports: Police are investigating a complaint that a school official may have violated a federal law by showing student records — the records of a Board of Education member’s child — to another Board of Education member who is not related to the student in question, police and school officials said. “We are…