Hot Diggety! Benjamin Krueger was rumored to have written: > This story came out yesterday. A public school utilized webcams in > laptops to spy on children and their families both at school and at > home. The practice came to light after the Principal reprimanded a > student for behavior at home, using a picture from a webcam as > evidence.
Final update: settlement was announced yesterday: http://www.lmsd.org/sections/news/default.php?m=0&t=today&p=lmsd_anno&id=1456 Essence of LMSD's stated reason for settlement: avoid further legal bills. I'm very doubtful of their claim that had the plaintiffs contacted the school district without taking legal action, they'd have had made the necessary changes on their own. Perhaps in an alternate universe... :) A better attorney taking the high road would have had simply left out the unnecessary pot shot at the plaintiffs and left out the statement they could've prevailed at trial. Would've sufficed simply to outline the settlement and move on. Nonwithstanding certain comments made by LMSD in their settlement announcement, I do give them credit for going about the revised policy the right way: open, transparent way, with much community involvement as well as better research on what should be revised. Credit also given for quickly disabling this function while policy was being revised and in keeping the public informed about case updates. The revised policy appears to be much better as well. Summary of policy changes: http://www.lmsd.org/sections/news/default.php?t=today&p=lmsd_anno&id=1390 The revised laptop policies adopted by the School District Board: http://www.lmsd.org/sections/laptops/default.php?t=pages&p=laptops_docs One still wonders what will become of the two suspended IT workers in limbo for so long -- back to work or being fired/pushed out? -Dan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
