On 03/11/2010 10:13 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > Usually, said > permission requires a warrant in any jurisdiction. The school system > has neither claimed or established that it had obtained any form of > legal permission to enter into the surveillance that was undertaken. > It begins to appear as though the school system displayed a lot of > excess hubris in their decision to essentially take the law into their > own hands regarding claims of stolen or missing laptop computers.
I hate it when legal analysis gets into issues like this. For example, did the parents and students agree to cooperate in efforts to recover a missing or stolen laptop assigned to the student? If they did, then they may well have agreed to such a recovery tactic even if said tactic wasn't explicitly agreed to. People can give up an awful lot of what appears to be a right in order to work, or even get usage of a computer. Incidentally, it should be noted that the fact negotiations are now apparently occurring means that at least one side doesn't want this to go to trial and possibly both. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
