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Illinois prosecutors have charged a 13-year-old student with felony eavesdropping for recording his conversation with two school administrators. Should he be found guilty and sentenced, a conviction could land him a minimum of one year in prison. According to TechDirt:
The [Illinois] law forbids recordings without all parties' consent. It would seem that the school officials' refusal to discuss anything further once they were informed they were being recorded should have been enough. The conversation was ended, along with the recording. If they were concerned they said something they shouldn't have during the previous ten minutes, maybe should have restrained themselves during the argument, rather than ruin a 13-year-old's life with a bad law Illinois legislators refuse to rewrite. Given how often this law is used to protect the powerful, it's hardly surprising legislators haven't expressed a serious interest in fixing it.
Everyone from the administrators to the prosecutors and those in between had a lot of discretion available to stop the chain of events, but all chose not to stop it.
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Monday July 02 2018, @06:50PM (1 child)
Given the way the administration has behaved here, perhaps they are the reason the kid doesn't respect their authority. Act like a jackass, get treated like a jackass. It may be that the administrator has also lost the respect of the parents for the same reason.
Were that not the case, we would probably not be reading the non-news non-story about a 13 year old getting suspended for persistent discipline problems.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 02 2018, @09:19PM
We certainly wouldn't be reading about a court case where the 13 year old is facing prison time for said non-story. Someone is doing it wrong, even if we don't know how.