(Mike’s Note: This seems like a crackpot use of an otherwise well-meaning law. How can the girl be her own victim? What’s next: busting onanistic teenage males for sexual abuse of themselves? There’s got to be a better way.)
By Beth DeFalco
The Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. — A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child [...]
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Commentary by Bruce Schneier
In the United States, the concept of “expectation of privacy” matters because it’s the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your privacy.
Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actually has two parts. First, the government’s action [...]
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Published: March 23, 2009
SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.
An assistant principal, enforcing the school’s antidrug policies, suspected her [...]
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School district sued over anthem practiced at The Webster School
Parents of two elementary school students last week filed a lawsuit against the St. Johns County School District, saying their children’s constitutional rights were violated when teachers required them to rehearse a song that declares “there’s no doubt” the United States is a Christian nation.
The parents, [...]
By MICHAEL C. DORF
Monday, March 23, 2009
Two 2008 federal appeals court rulings—one that may be on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and another that is already there—raise thorny questions of the extent to which schoolchildren enjoy the protections afforded by the Constitution to adults.
In Frazier v. Alexandre, the U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
As a mother, I have recently discovered Facebook. My kids knew about it long ago and I poo pooed it as another mindless waste of time. Finally, I joined so I could track my kid’s antics like a sneaky James Bond spy. Trouble is – I somehow got hooked myself. Suddenly, friends from far and [...]
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By Cindy Kranz • ckranz@enquirer.com • March 22, 2009
Jessica Logan’s nude cell-phone photo – meant for her boyfriend’s eyes only – was sent to hundreds of teenagers last year in at least seven Greater Cincinnati high schools.
The 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior was then bombarded with taunts: slut, porn queen, whore.
On July 3, Jessie hanged [...]
Tuesday, Mar 24 2009, 3:23 pm
Barry Smith
RALEIGH – When Leslie Thompson’s parents died within two months of each other about three years ago, she took her teenage sister under her wings.
Her sister, Erica Collora, was 15 at the time. Thompson said that her sister’s peers picked on her a lot because of her mannerisms.
“She always [...]
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By ELIZABETH DUNBAR , Associated Press
Last update: March 24, 2009 – 2:09 PM
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A bill that would expand Minnesota schools’ anti-bullying policies by listing more than a dozen characteristics that could be targets for harassment is on its way to the Senate floor.
The Senate Education Committee approved the bill Tuesday on a [...]
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Youths facing felony charges
By Andrea J. Cook, Journal staff | Thursday, March 19, 2009
A carload of white juveniles allegedly singled out homeless Native Americans on Tuesday evening in what police describe as a string of hate crimes on North Rapid streets.
Rapid City Chief of Police Steve Allender said the racially-motivated incidents could undermine the city’s [...]
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