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Up against the Wall! Should district be allowed to demand middle-schooler's Facebook password?
msnbc ^ | 3/13/2012 | Bob Sullivan

Posted on 03/13/2012 5:03:05 AM PDT by tobyhill

A 12-year-old Minnesota girl was reduced to tears while school officials and a police officer rummaged through her private Facebook postings after forcing her to surrender her password, an ACLU lawsuit alleges.

The claims are the latest in a string of tales showing that even password-protected, private online activities might not be safe from curious government agencies and schools. (See last week’s story)

The girl, whose identity is withheld in the lawsuit, came home "crying, depressed, angry, scared and embarrassed" after she was intimidated into divulging her login information by a school counselor and a deputy sheriff, who arrived in uniform, armed with a Taser, the lawsuit alleges.

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To: Travis McGee

Travis, Love the graphic.


21 posted on 03/13/2012 5:35:24 AM PDT by Ratman83
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To: tobyhill

the legal age for having a facebook account is 13

the school is replacing her parents in grounding this twit

if the kids use school computers to access social sites then the schools shuld have the right to demand their passwords


22 posted on 03/13/2012 5:38:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: tobyhill

Public school is child abuse.


23 posted on 03/13/2012 5:40:58 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Scotswife

A side point. Have you noticed that many things are now called bullying the same way the word racism is used. If you don’t get you’re way or you’re the least bit offended, the other person is either a bully or a racist.


24 posted on 03/13/2012 5:42:37 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (It's now or never!)
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To: ReformedBeckite

I just Googled, “police, taser, children, school,” and there were 8 million results.

Here is one of the first at random.

Second Child Shocked by Police Taser Gun | Fox Newswww.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138488,00.htmlCached - Similar
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Jan 29, 2005 – Police Director Bobby Parker (search) defended the decision to use a Taser ( search) on the 6-year-old boy last month because he was ...


25 posted on 03/13/2012 5:42:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
You know, I don't understand why we just don't go ahead and adopt the communist manifesto and get it over with. I mean, it seems that there aint nobody putting up a fight or pushing back. The political scum in DC don't seem to care. You could just create a bill with the communist manifesto in it. Congress would pass it cause they don't read bills before they vote on them anyhow. It would be simple, especially with a commie in the White House. He's love to sign it. What do people need rights for anyway? People need to be told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, where to do it, and who to do it with. Most of us are to stupid to have rights and don't know what to do with them in the first place. I can't take this anymore, might as well get it over with.

I hope y'all see my animosity and sarcasm and I don't have to answer any post about being a sympathizer.

26 posted on 03/13/2012 5:43:28 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: tobyhill

Why has nobody mentioned 5th Amendment protections against self-incrimination?

I’d say by age 13 you ought to be familiar with the Bill of Rights.


27 posted on 03/13/2012 5:44:32 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: MichiganCheese

Yes, it’s linguistic fascism, this PC categorizing of right and wrong think.

Some thoughts you are forbidden to have, lest you be branded a racist, homophobe, a bully etc.

The Mark of Caine in the USSA.


28 posted on 03/13/2012 5:44:38 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Ratman83
Feel free to spread it widely. I hate this grinding one-way march to fascism.
29 posted on 03/13/2012 5:46:33 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Scotswife

We have a big advantage on the world by homeschooling.
They’re not subjected to the daily deluge of secular humanist liberal teachers and “peers” from homes that are ... “less discerning”.

So the battle is easier for us.


30 posted on 03/13/2012 5:46:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MichiganCheese

ABSOLUTELY!!!

And you don’t think the kids use this to their advantage while all the adults are hysterical?

This bullying stuff is going to cause a while ‘nother list of unintended consequences.
But don’t let that stop the politicians from passing more unfunded mandates.

In NY the schools are now in the process of coming up with anti-bullying policies that conform with a new law.


31 posted on 03/13/2012 5:49:11 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: do the dhue

I understand you completely. Maybe we could do an American-Idol style phone call in plebescite.

Dial one number for “Let’s keep the old white slave-owner’s Constitution,”

Dial another for, “Let’s try the hip new progressive Communist manifesto.”

I think we’d lose. One man, one vote, one time.


32 posted on 03/13/2012 5:49:56 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MrB

God bless you.

The teachers are less of a problem for us...I’ve found when I filtered out certain “friends”, this has helped a lot.


33 posted on 03/13/2012 5:51:00 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: tobyhill

The “public school” is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.

The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.

It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.

If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.

If you already have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.

DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!

Especially not with your own children!

I am repeating myself, but it must be said, and as many as possible must hear this.


34 posted on 03/13/2012 5:55:49 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: tobyhill

No.


35 posted on 03/13/2012 5:59:22 AM PDT by sigzero
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To: Travis McGee
Brilliant!! Travis McOppenheimer You must be a genius!
36 posted on 03/13/2012 6:04:35 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: rightly_dividing

Nobody was tased. Calm down.

What if this girl created a facebook page to discuss whether your 12 year old had herpes? What then? You gonna fight that girl?

What if your girl created a facebook page to discuss whether this 12 year old had herpes? What then? You gonna fight your girl?

The whole problem is everybody has rights and guards them fiercely. This is OK, but all too frequently takes the form “My rights, whaaaa! I want my rights!”

Unfortunately, all too common is “Responsibilities? We don’t need no stinkin’ responsibilities.”

Everyone has rights, everyone ELSE has responsibilities.

Now of course, I’m sure your girl wouldn’t do such a thing.

But, if we ask the other parents, niether will their kid. Nobody’s kid will.

Still, it happens.

Now, don’t tase, me, bro. This is not meant to be an indictment of you, it’s an indictment of society.

Myself? I think the principal should be able to paddle kids that do this kind of crap. But then I was raised when principals could have paddled kids for this kind of crap and my parents would have approved of it.

I think that way was better.


37 posted on 03/13/2012 6:07:05 AM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
It’s against FB’s TOS to give out your password.

It's also against FB's policy to have a FB page if you're younger than 13.

That said, my daughter has had a FB page since she was 12, with my approval. I find it very useful to see what's going on with her and her friends.

If the school district wanted her password, I would tell them to pound sand unless they had a court order.

38 posted on 03/13/2012 6:27:53 AM PDT by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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To: Travis McGee

It might no longer be a grinding march, with O and our Congress it seems more like a stumbling run.


39 posted on 03/13/2012 6:29:49 AM PDT by Ratman83
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To: BobL

Why? WTF does the school have to do with Facebook? And WTF was a sheriff involved?


40 posted on 03/13/2012 6:35:38 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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