David Singleton reports a follow-up to a Pennsylvania student sexting case that was covered previously on this site when a federal judge chastised a district attorney for threatening to prosecute the students. The injunction was later upheld by the Third Circuit. A former Tunkhannock Area High School student accused school and Wyoming County law enforcement…
Category: Youth & Schools
UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA
UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package — cotton swabs for a DNA sample. In the past, incoming freshman and transfer students have received a rather typical welcome book from the College of Letters and Science’s “On the Same Page” program, but this year the students will be…
Attorney General Urges Topix.Com To Abandon “Pay-To-Police” Policy That Exploits Consumers Victimized By Abusive Internet Posts
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, joined by 22 other state attorneys general, urged Internet message board host Topix.com to improve consumer protections and eliminate its $19.99 fee for “priority review” to eliminate abusive or inappropriate posts. In a letter to Topix CEO Chris Tolles, Blumenthal and his colleagues expressed significant concerns with the “Forums and Polls”…
Court says students can sue over strip search
Dan Sewell reports: A federal appeals panel ruled Friday staffers at an Pike County vocational school can be sued by high school nursing students who were strip-searched after a reported theft. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected immunity for the school officials, standing by an earlier conclusion that the…