On 03/11/2010 11:44 AM, Stewart Marshall wrote: > Art I agree with you, but it does raise some pretty significant legal > issues. > > Was the school within it's rights to have this type of tracking system? > (Apparently not according to PA law.)
Funnily enough despite PA statutes, this is probably unsettled law. > Did the school inform the parents/students about this type of tracking > ability? I suspect that the school district didn't but the parents and students likely signed a blind release that could at least arguably authorize such tracking. > I hope this does get settled, and I hope the school system gets a better > tracking capabilty than it has. What nobody seems to have noticed is that the school officials in apparent good faith, tried to stop what it considered to likely be drug usage, there was not an apparent attempt to involve the police once it had determined who had removed the laptop from school. I have lots of bones to pick with Lower Merion but not over how it tried to deal with what its officials perceived as drug usage. Incidentally I'm a cynic, I note how the pictures of the youth and his behavior with "Mike&Ike" hasn't been released by his side. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
