Posted on 03/28/2015 5:58:02 PM PDT by servo1969
O’Fallon Superintendent Dr. Darcy G. Benway recently sent this letter out to parents.
Dear Parents and Guardians:
Pursuant to Illinois School Code (105 ILCS 75/15), OTHS is required to notify parents/guardians that we may request or require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student’s account or profile on a social networking website if the district has reasonable cause to believe that the student’s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a disciplinary rule or policy.
This email serves as that notification.
Thank you.
Dr. Darcy G. Benway, OTHS Superintendent
Sure enough Illinois State Law 105 ILCS 75/15 allows schools to demand social networking passwords.
Sec. 15. Notification. An elementary or secondary school must provide notification to the student and his or her parent or guardian that the elementary or secondary school may request or require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student’s account or profile on a social networking website if the elementary or secondary school has reasonable cause to believe that the student’s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a school disciplinary rule or policy. The notification must be published in the elementary or secondary school’s disciplinary rules, policies, or handbook or communicated by similar means.
(Source: P.A. 98-129, eff. 1-1-14.)
Good but they have a lot of hidden accounts.They are sexting and sending cutting pictures 8th grade and up.Mom and Dad have no idea.
“that the elementary or secondary school may request or require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student’s account or profile on a social networking website if the elementary or secondary school has reasonable cause to believe that the student’s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a school disciplinary rule or policy”
The answer is a solid “F You copper”. Apparently they have never heard of the 4th amendment. Imagine this slightly reworded version. A school is government. They need a warrant.
This government agency may require a citizen to provide a passwords or other related account information in order to gain access to the person’s account or profile on a social networking website if the government agency has reasonable cause to believe that the citizens account on a social networking website contains evidence of a violation of the law.
Yeah, 4th Amendment applies to children too. Both my sons (16, 18) already know to tell their high school to go F themselves if they're ever asked anything inappropriate.
Let the school get a warrant. Daddy's got a lawyer on retainer and I'd happily pay to see that fight. Nazi bastards won't get away with this bullshit with my kids. Guarandamntee that.
A ruse to get into the parents internet.
99.99999% of school kids are wide open re their social net use.
They aren’t smart enough to use pass word protection beyond 1234 or abcde.
Tinker v. Des Moines
“Students do not lose their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door”
Will they Water Board if they don’t get them ?
you sound like great parents, get your kids out of the public system
Demand all you want. Bring a warrant and/or subpoena from a judge if you expect compliance.
Public schools are pretty much slime.
Illinois public schools are around three or so quantum levels below that.
And from public schools, the marshmallow minds then go to “universities” where the majority will study advanced topics in gay literature, womyn’s studies, turds as art, and even more exciting (albeit low-IQ) subjects.
Keep it up, folks, send your increasingly devalued money to liberal institutions of lower learning.
We get paid back with Hillaries, Boxers, and ....Obamas.
Hmm. First an article about school senidng home letters with students about their BMI now an article about them demanding their social networks and passwords. I’m guessing this is how they indoctrinate a generation into the slave submission mindset by starting with the atudent. I see a pattern here. Next will be adults...
There is no “and if you don’t ....” part of the law. They can slap your hand with a ruler if you don’t supply the information? What if you give them the information in an encrypted binary file? Just so many “ifs”.
They could request away - I would refer them to my middle finger.
We transferred them out of private school for high school. Oldest one is done this May and off to Western Illinois University for Law Enforcement, he scored a free ride due to his ACT score and academic record (National Honor society, all that.)
Youngest one will be done in a year and a half, then I'm out of Illinois. This whole state can kiss my ass.
It was Indiana that passed the pro-religion bill NOT Illinois.
Wrong state. It was Indiana.
I'd seriously consider making up a fake Facebook page just to amuse myself and confuse them. Maybe page after page of chess moves.
The proper response to such a demand:
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Get a warrant.
He's got a free ride based on his ACT and academic record, and he wants to be a cop?
What's he want to do, stay unemployed?
Do a Google search of "police iq".
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