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Mom charged after putting recording device in daughter's backpack
In late September, Sims says she had enough. She tells 10 On Your Side her 9-year-old daughter was getting bullied at Ocean View Elementary. She says repeated calls and emails to the school went un-returned. [...] Sims says she took actions into her own hands. She wanted to prove that nothing was being done to help her 4th grade daughter. She put a digital recorder into her daughter's backpack in hopes of catching audio from inside the classroom. "If I'm not getting an answer from you what am I left to do?" she asked. The recorder was found. The 9-year-old was moved to a new classroom and about a month later Sims was charged by police.
[...] Sims was charged with felony use of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The felony charge could carry five years in prison.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Thursday November 30 2017, @02:50AM (7 children)
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you talking about a mother who was concerned about her child's welfare. A child who had professed fear about bullying at he school? Or are you talking about a school administration and/or the law enforcement officials the administration called who failed to react to concerns of the mother for her daughter who then overcharged the mother without consulting with her?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:04AM (6 children)
I'm talking about her apparent ignorance of the law. Mostly though I just needed to make a comment on an article to make sure comments were un-hosed again. martyb forgot to turn off his magical QA powers when he was poking at something on the CONFIG page and found a bug older than SN that could hose posting new comments if you held your mouth precisely right.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by martyb on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:28AM
"magical QA powers"? Can't wait until I reach the rank of Wizard! =)
But seriously, I do apologize for tripping up comment posting.
The last comment posted before things went wonky was at: 2017-11-29 23:25:14 UTC and the first after things got corrected was at: 2017-11-30 02:25:06 UTC.
I would like to take a moment and note this is a testament to how well the devs wrangled the slashcode base into shape. When SoylentNews first went live, entire site outages were pretty common. That it now runs days, weeks, and (dare I say it) even months without issues impresses me greatly! Heck, we were even able to move servers between data centers while the site remained up. About the only recent, user-visible hiccup that I recall was that we lost IRC during one of those moves, and that was only a matter of a few minutes.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Wootery on Thursday November 30 2017, @12:07PM (3 children)
Workaround: everyone shut up.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 30 2017, @02:28PM (2 children)
Well, I mean, I could still post since I have direct access to the db but arguing with myself just isn't as satisfying and who would I troll when the mood strikes me?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Wootery on Thursday November 30 2017, @02:58PM
Anyone you like - you have direct access to the db!
(Score: 5, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:11PM
You could troll yourself - multiple personality disorder is fun!
No it isn't.
Shut up, wasn't asking you.
You shut up.
You want to take this offline, tough boy?
Why yes, c'mon let's go outside.........
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Friday December 01 2017, @12:42AM
If I was your mother
I'd never let you leave
Without a small recording device
Tucked into your backpack