Feds decide web cam spying of students A-OK.
School Accused of Webcam Spying Will Not Face Criminal Charges
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has decided not to bring criminal charges against a Pennsylvania school that remotely activated the webcams on laptops loaned to students.
An investigation determined that no one involved had criminal intent, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger.
“I have concluded that bringing criminal charges is not warranted in this matter,” Memeger said. “For the government to prosecute a criminal case, it must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person charged acted with criminal intent.”</em>
What utter bullshit. Civil cases will continue, and I hope they sue the school system into the dirt. Of course, in that scenario everyone loses- everyone but the jackasses who decided that it was their job to spy on children. Now, if you worked at Best Buy, sold the same kid a laptop and remotely activated the cam and saved images from it, you’d be guilty of child abuse…no matter if you had “criminal intent” or not. But put the word “school” into it, and suddenly its something other than spying? Illegal search and seizure? This is madness.
Have we gone so far around the nanny state bend that somewhere in this “land of the free” there are people who feel that this is the proper role of government (which make no mistake, the school system is)? Now, I’m all for getting rid of Coke machines and Twinkies from lunchrooms, because I rankle at my tax dollars going to purchase poison, but what my child does outside of your building is of no concern to you…or wouldn’t be, if we truly practiced what we preach.
