Lower Merion School District--SpyCam and Race Case Developments.

[msanthrope]

1) Spycam--the federal judge has now allowed the FBI access to the images, IM's and chats recorded by the School District.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100511_Judge__FBI_can_review_Lower_Merion_webcam_photos.html

2) The redistricting race case that Lower Merion has been embroiled in is coming to a close.

http://www.kyw1060.com/End-Nears-in-L--Merion-School-Redistricting-Court-/6951153


The word here is that possible defenses floated are--even if the spycams caught 'certain images' there's no proof that anyone 'saw' the images.

So if a child porn tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to whack off to it.....

[msanthrope]

1. Former employee speaks up about the district's report...

Former IT chief’s lawyer attacks Web cam report
By John P. Martin

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The lawyer for the former top technology administrator in the Lower Merion School District today attacked a report that broadly blamed his client for the furor over the district's secret laptop tracking program.

Lawyer Nicholas Centrella, who represents Virginia DiMedio, said he didn't dispute the facts in the 69-page document, issued at a school board meeting Monday night. But Centrella challenged some of the conclusions, starting with the cover page that described it as an "independent" probe into when and why district tech employees activated Webcams on student-issued laptops.

"It was not an independent investigation," he said. "What flows from that is a clear attempt to insulate and protect the current board at the expense of the IT department and former employees like Ginny."

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He also noted that the incident that brought the laptop tracking to light - when an assistant Harriton High School principal confronted sophomore Blake Robbins with a Webcam photo shot in his Penn Valley home - occurred in November, months after DiMedio had retired.

And he said that the former tech administrator plans to give a sworn deposition as part of Robbins' civil suit - and that some of her answers under oath in that case will contradict the report.

SNIP

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100504_Former_IT_chiefs_lawyer_attacks_webcam_report.html

[FiveGoodMen]

2. K&R

[msanthrope]

3. Thank you!. n/t

[EFerrari]

4. K&R. Ironic if the attempt to finger the IT people

just winds up loosening their tongues and damning the admins more.

[msanthrope]

5. Don't Fuck With The Nerds......n/t

[EFerrari]

7. LOL.

:hi:

[dsn]

6. Whether there's anyone to whack off to it isn't the issue

If Joe Citizen has child porn on his computer, they don't care whether Joe looked at it. He could have loaned the computer to one of his friends who was a pervert, and the friend DL'd the porn...but if it's on Joe's computer, it's Joe's porn and Joe will be making license plates for the rest of his life. Therefore...whoever decided to activate the webcams and whoever was in charge of the network own this porn.

[msanthrope]

8. yes, but, when the porn is on 'corporate' computers......

i.e.--general servers?????