On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Art Clemons <artclem...@aol.com> wrote:
> The problem for your logic is that the laptop was removed without > permission so was missing. The laptop was supposed to be used in school > only under the circumstances indicated unless the insurance was > purchased. The laptop at best thus was missing. It was not clear when > the surveillance began exactly where the missing laptop was. I'll ask > again if the laptop had been stolen, would you still term what was done > as "spying"? Spying? Yes, absolutely, and particularly so since no notice had been provided that such would be the consequence for a "missing" computer. As I said earlier, you first call the parents of the student and query them about the whereabouts of the "missing" computer. If that pans out to be unsatisfactory, you take it from there. It surely must have been known that the student's computer was supposed to remain in the school because the insurance fee had not been paid. Logic would tell you that the most likely scenario was that the kid was simply taking the computer home despite the fact the fee had not been paid. Kids just act that way. Surely, any high school administrator knows that. You act upon the most likely scenario as opposed to getting all knee-jerk about it. What if a student in the school band was taking home their instrument without having paid the insurance fee on that? Since the instrument would not be equipped a camera, would you call his or her parents about it or would you send someone to the student's home and have them sneak up to the kid's bedroom window and take a peek inside? Furthermore, it is not the duty of the school system to be talking the law into their own hands. When an expensive item ihas been determined to have been stolen, you report that to the police and have them take the appropriate action, not some IT geeks. If the cops want to get a warrant to allow them to view what the computer camera can capture, then let them do that, and proceed accordingly. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
