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- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"The laws of thirteen states expressly prohibit the unauthorized installation or use of cameras in “private” places. These states include: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Utah. In these states, the installation or use of any device for photographing, observing or eavesdropping actions or audio in a "private" place without permission of those being observed or listened to is a crime punishable by law. Some states also prohibit trespassing on private property to conduct unauthorized surveillance of people there. These states include: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Utah. In most of these states, the unauthorized installation or use of Hidden Cameras (those that are seen as violating ones 4th Amendment rights to privacy) is a felony offense.
Violating such laws is punishable by a $2,000.00 fine and a sentence of up to 2 years in prison."
blatent copy-paste - MTigerV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Is it just me, or do all of these local tv station pages look just about the same? Not to mention the anchors (from the left: Minority Female, Old White Guy, Blonde White Lady, Over-Excited Communitcations Major who probably does sports)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6E-mail the guy to let him know how you feel.
hfore@jasper.k12.ga.us - seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6WTF. If this was my kid I would sue the ***** out of the school, state, and city. After I won I would beat the ***** out of that principle.
- 808kick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That's disturbing, I wouldn't want my son/daughter going to a school where some perverted principal can film them in the washroom and says it's just to catch "vandalism".
- floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The principal could probably earn more money selling those videos online, and the children could get a cut if they play the camera right...
/sarcasm - mikehilb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Link to this schhols website
http://www.jasper.k12.ga.us/JCHS/index.htm
Phone #(706)468-2227
Ask for Principal Fore - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 Of course it's wrong. I'm sure the washrooms for the staff don't have cameras in them. It is illegal to put a camera in a bathroom. Just because a person is young doesn't mean they have no right to privacy. You don't suddenly become a person once you are past 18 years old.
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Article 12
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
www.hrweb.org - moose_diggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do ya think the Russians could out source some of those attack squirrels to maul the principal of that school... that ***** is ridiculous.video in bathrooms.. morons
- fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9only in america
come up to canada, where our bathrooms are free of video cameras and crackheads! - clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just plain wrong. I don't care if it's in a public school or not.
- dvader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's ***** up that principal should be fired for putting a camera in a restroom.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Reminds me of last year when some kid wouldn't stand for the pledge and the teacher abused him, then the student who taped it on his cell phone got in trouble for taping it.
- TradFiddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't know about the rest of you, but if that had happened to me, I'd have ripped it down, smashed it and taken it to the office. I'd have told them that I found a camera in the restroom, and asked them to notify the police, and "Oh, by the way, it broke when I removed it..."
- obscurelyfamous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My God.
The principal needs to be reviewed or removed. At the very LEAST, that student should not be punished without intensive investigation. - CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Remember kids, if you call him, please be polite and record it for digg.
"Phone #(706)468-2227" - theonlybigboss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The Principal should not be fired - he should be shot, or mauled by a grizzly bear, then the bear should shoot him for good measure, plain and simple.
- akamia123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This reminds me of when I was in high school. In my sophomore year the school installed cameras all over the school with the exception of classrooms and bathrooms. The only people who had access to the cameras were administrators and the school's a/v guy.
So I took tv production in my junior year and the a/v guy was regularly in the studio watching the cameras. Occasionally he would catch students having sex in the stairwells during class. The creepy thing is, he would capture images and print them out to show other teachers and I assume take home for his own personal enjoyment.
I have a feeling that is the same thing this principal is probably doing. - tim11198, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If there are surveillance cameras in schools, anywhere in schools, the parents should be informed. This applies especially to bathrooms, to install a sensitive, dangerous, and possibly illegal surveillance device in a public school without consulting parents is utterly indefensible. The only reason the student brought that camera home is he did not know what else to do. If I were him and found a camera spying on me while in the restroom, I would most likely trust my parents a hell of a lot more than I would trust the administrators of the school. The boys actions are entirely understandable. The actions of the Principal, however, are not. Even if the intent was to catch vandals, there has to be a less intrusive way of doing it than infringing on the privacy rights of juveniles. Also, there is the issue concerning the tapes. If the principal keeps them privately, that is deeply disturbing and the man simply should not be around children no matter how good his intentions were. There is no person or group of people who I deem have the right to watch me in the bathroom, even if no sensitive personal areas are visible.This should be taken to court.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Uncyclopedia - http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Pervert
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they should put a camera in the principal's john and webcast it. Show him what it feels like to have your privacy violated.
- RomieZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats ridiculous..I would have done the same thing.
- moose_diggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ya think the school could maybe spend some time and money on making the bathrooms less vulnerable to vandalism.. and not trying to "catch" would be vandals? And as far as where the camera is pointed in a way as to not see the kids genitals... *****...what if a kid has diarrhea and wants to wash his ass off or his sack or whatever the reason he needs to undress a bit by the sink.. also handicapped kids need to do this.. theres NO justification in video anyones bathroom. If this was any place other than a school...LAWSUIT!!!!!
Gimme a break . - Drumrboy247, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Principal Fore's Photograph.
Look out for this guy!
http://www.jasper.k12.ga.us/JCHS/2003-2004/Administration%20001.jpg - ursabear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This particular student should get recognized for standing up for something important...
Remember standing up for important things, even when one gets in trouble for it? - pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am confused. Soda machines need to be removed from schools but cameras should be placed in the bathrooms?
I love living in a blue state, they can't even put cameras in break rooms in public buildings here, malls are not supposed to have cameras in dressings rooms. You have the right to privacy here. But of course Georgia had no law against stacking dead people in the woods, so I wouldn't expect much. - LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2when you're in school before 18, you're in prison. HS was prison. You have no say.
- PacketScan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When i was in high school only one bathroom would be open during classes. During breaks they would open all of the restrooms but teachers would stand at the door out side of the bathroom. What this misguided gentleman has done is not only disturbing but disgusting. If that was my child i would be seeking legal advise as well as finding out what can be done criminally against this principal.
- MLRS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I live not to far from where that took place and all I can say is that he not only be fired, but banned from anything involving schools.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I say the students sneak a camera into that guy's office and staff bathroom. Then we'll see their true colors.
/Sent a pretty nasty e-mail to the guy. Let's flood his inbox and piss of the tech department that's gonna have to fix the mail server. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this kind of ***** is very disturbing, because it softens kids up to being constantly survilled in later life. why don't we just stick a camera up peoples arses and track them "for their own good" and be done with it.
oh wait, there is this thing called privacy, and just because your a school kid, you aren't any less intitled to it then an adult.
personally if i was that kid, i'd ***** smash up that camera and leave a note on top of the pile of broke camera saying "don't try it again" - Mark_H, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"If the little s**t heads would quick f***ing writing on the damn walls this wouldn't have even been a problem..."
Why should the innocent have to pay in stripped privacy for somebody else's wrongdoings? - 703_KN33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Where else do you see cameras in bathrooms? About the only place that comes to mind is high security prison."
...ooh!! and in jasper county georgia schools!! - clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That bathroom is a holy and sacred place, period. No excuse for a camera in there, ever, especially in a public school. I highly disagree MightyGiant.
- MindsCave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah i can see it justified for a principal to install a camera in a boys bathroom without telling anyone else that he did it... if you are gonna do it one would think you would go about letting faculty know that you would like one in there and everywhere else. Its prison not school.
- cfazzini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was a gym teacher who was also the Audio/Video coordinator at my HS who got caught putting a video camera in the guys locker room. Somehow he is still teaching. Wierd *****.
- trvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Am I the only person who noticed how big that damn monitor is in the picture?!? http://wmaz.com/assetpool/images/051130191955_bathroom%20cam%201.jpg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Email him and tell him how much we like invasion of privacy..
hfore@jasper.k12.ga.us - latour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1.. you actualy think they put the camera RIGHT on top of the stalls, no.
- frozendice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is NOT 2 sides to every subject, things aren't always just right or wrong. Yes, this is an invasion of privacy, and a horrible one. Cameras should never be placed in a bathroom for ANY reason whatsoever. I don't care if someone shooting drugs in there, it doesn't matter. You find another way to deal with it.
What's with these people that say to stop the finger pointing and provide a solution. That's not our responsibility. It's the schools way to find a solution, not ours. We can fully object WITHOUT having to figure another way.
To curtail vandalism in bathrooms there's so MANY ways. If the school is to cheap to implement them, that's their fault and they need to get their priority's straight.
1. Sent faculty in at random times. Just look around.
2. Put break detectors in things like mirrors, the way they do for alarm systems at homes, where if it's broken it'll call security.
3. Or you could just put attack squirrels in the toilets. - twitndiggfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This principal needs to be FIRED!
- gmcsmalls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my roommate here at UGA went to this school and he told me ***** up ***** like this happens all the time b/c it is such a small town and they get away with a lot of *****.
- seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Vandalism or not. Cameras in the bathroom = NO WAY!
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let me point out that I do think a camera is a bad solution...I guess I should make that clear...
but nonetheless provide alternatives people! - mrmatchgame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One: To Control Vandilism They installed Video Camera
Two: By doing this they broke many state and fedreal laws
Three: They also did not notify any students or parents that taping would occure in Bath Rooms.
Four: The Student had every right to take down the camera.
Five: The School Can't suspend a student for taking down a camera that was not suppose to there anyway.
What the ***** is the school thinking, Wait till the AG hears about this, the school is so getting a new ***** riped. - advil0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1CREEPY!!!
THATS ALL I GOTTA SAY!!!
THAT PRINCIPAL IS PERVERTED!!!!!!
THATS DISTURBING!! - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So according to that law you just copied and pasted, the principal is now screwed!
- DoMaGe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Didn't someone just find one of these in a girls bathroom? That caused one helluva stink. If they can't do it in a girls bathroom, then they can't do it in a boys, whatever the motive.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He should have reported the problem, it is school property. But the principal has no right to install a camera, that is an invasion of property, I wouldn't want my principal looking at my digg while I whizz
- frozencaldera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1privacy is dead and Bush is getting away with this patriot act *****. I don't feel secure even with the thing... can I have my personal privacy back please???
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