Two students at Clark High School in Texas are being charged with accusations over the creation of a false MySpace page for the schools assistant principal. Reported by MySA.com, the students created a page that was filled with lewd, defamatory and obscene comments, pictures and graphics.
Anna Draker, the assistant principal, is suing both students, and their parents for:
“defamation, libel, negligence and negligent supervision over a page on the popular Web site MySpace.com.”
The MySpace students also falsely posted her sexual orientation as a “lesbian” and were filled with comments sexual comments by others pertaining to the graphics and information on the page.
The school reported they have little control over cases of this form, as they can be done away from school. In the law suit she is suing for money for damages of emotional distress and more, but the attorney stated the case is more about teaching a lesson.
MySpace did remove the page immediately after being contacted by Draker. Steve Jones, author of “CyberSociety” who has written extensively on Internet use had this to say about the case:
“This is the most serious, most concerted effort that I’ve seen a teacher or a school administrator undertake involving a posting on MySpace. This is pretty remarkable,” he said. “I think a lot of people will be watching this.”
In cases like this in the past, most students are usually suspended or possibly expelled.
Not only can you get into trouble with schools or employers for what you post on you Facebook, MySpace, YouTube or blog, but now it can be used as evidence for police.
Last year in riot at the University of Massachusetts, campus police arrested 34 people, 31 of whom were students. A total of 57 people where charged for violences during the riot.
If you were able to escape the police before they showed up, you could still have been charged. Police told reports from the DailyCollegian.com, that they used security cameras from the area, as well as cell phone videos posted on students Facebooks and MySpaces, and YouTube. Since the police could not see everything that was going on, this was there only way to catch everyone.
“We have no intentions of stopping until we’ve identified every single rock thrower and every single person who is responsible for the damage,” Archbald said in a Jan. 25 interview. He said detectives used video footage from campus cameras and from YouTube.com, photos from cell phone cameras, facebook.com and MySpace.com in an effort to identify the accused.
School disciplinary actions ended with 5 expulsions, 28 suspensions, and 22 differed suspensions.
The riot occurred following a football game, in which UMass lost to Appalachian State 28-17. Over 1,800 students gathered at the schools Southwest Plaza, rioting and throwing rocks. Several police offers where injured and around $100,000 in damages were reported.
Hear about the students who where expelled for a Facebook study group? How about the guy who got denied acceptance to a college because he posted dispargering coments about the school? Or the high school students suspended for posting pictures of themselves getting drunk on MySpace? At MyNaym.com you can find the latest news on people getting suspended, denied or fired from a job, expelled, etc., for postings and pictures they have made on MySpace, Facebook, blogs or any other online website.
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