-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 13 teens face felonies for tampering with school laptops Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:59:35 -0400 To: <declan@private> Hi Declan, Looks like a case where the combination of ignorant school administrators and overzealous police has caused a bunch of sophomores and juniors to be charged with a third degree felony. If you forward this, please remove my email address. Thanks. ------ " Thirteen Kutztown Area High School students are facing felony charges for tampering with district-issued laptop computers. According to parent testimony and confirmed by an otherwise vaguely-worded letter from the Kutztown Police Department, students got hold of the system's secret administrative password and reconfigured their computers to achieve greater Internet and network access. Some students used the newfound freedom to download music and inappropriate images from the Internet. James Shrawder spoke on behalf of a group of parents of six of the accused at a June 20 school board meeting. He said the administration may have railroaded the process by not providing authorities with the whole story. "That's absurd," Superintendent Brenda S. Winkler said after the board meeting, in response to Shrawder's allegations that the administration withheld information until the end of the school year. [...] http://www.berksmontnews.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=2694&dept_id=55298 0&newsid=14742096 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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