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STUDENTS CHARGE HIGH SCHOOLS WITH SPYING ON THEIR TEXT MESSDAGES
WLWT, OH - Civil rights watchdogs accused an area high school of
violating students' rights by prying into their personal lives. The
American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Mason High School,
saying that the group had received numerous complaints from students and
parents, who accused officials of a "fishing expedition" for evidence of
wrongdoing.
"A teacher took my phone and literally read my messages right in front
of me," said sophomore Darius Bembry. Another student said a teacher
wanted to search through all of his text messages and read them.
"I told him I didn't know how to check my history, and he actually
called Radio Shack and asked them how to do it," said senior Mark Dritt.
The ACLU said school officials seized students' cell phones and searched
their private communications to find out what they had been doing
outside of school hours and off school property.
School officials said the claims were exaggerated, saying that student
phones were confiscated only when they were caught using them during
school time and searched only under certain circumstances.
"If there is that reaction, if something gives people reason to think
that something is wrong, then an administrator will probably go through
it," said school spokeswoman Tracey Carson." It is a tiny amount of
cases where we actually looked at messages."
Students and civil rights activists disagreed, and every student that
News 5 spoke to Tuesday outside of class said a school official had read
their messages or a friend's.
http://www.wlwt.com/newsarchive/14708759/detail.html
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FORMER TOP BRASS CALL FOR END OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
STARS & STRIPES - Twenty-eight retired generals and admirals released a
letter on Friday urging Congress to repeal the 'don't ask, don't tell'
law, according to a report in Friday's New York Times. The letter's
release marked the 14th anniversary of the policy that allows gay men
and lesbians to serve in the military but only if they keep their
orientation secret. . . The officers said in the letter that "scholarly
data show" that 65,000 gay men and lesbians now serve in the American
armed forces and that there are more than 1 million gay veterans. "They
have served our nation honorably," the letter states.
Although the signers of the letter are high-ranking, none is of the
stature of Gen. John Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff when the policy was adopted and who now argues for its repeal,
the Times noted. Shalikashvili refocused attention on the issue earlier
this year when he wrote in a New York Times op-ed that conversations
with military personnel had prompted him to change his position.
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50649
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STUDENTS CHARGE HIGH SCHOOLS WITH SPYING ON THEIR TEXT MESSDAGES
WLWT, OH - Civil rights watchdogs accused an area high school of
violating students' rights by prying into their personal lives. The
American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Mason High School,
saying that the group had received numerous complaints from students and
parents, who accused officials of a "fishing expedition" for evidence of
wrongdoing.
"A teacher took my phone and literally read my messages right in front
of me," said sophomore Darius Bembry. Another student said a teacher
wanted to search through all of his text messages and read them.
"I told him I didn't know how to check my history, and he actually
called Radio Shack and asked them how to do it," said senior Mark Dritt.
The ACLU said school officials seized students' cell phones and searched
their private communications to find out what they had been doing
outside of school hours and off school property.
School officials said the claims were exaggerated, saying that student
phones were confiscated only when they were caught using them during
school time and searched only under certain circumstances.
"If there is that reaction, if something gives people reason to think
that something is wrong, then an administrator will probably go through
it," said school spokeswoman Tracey Carson." It is a tiny amount of
cases where we actually looked at messages."
Students and civil rights activists disagreed, and every student that
News 5 spoke to Tuesday outside of class said a school official had read
their messages or a friend's.
http://www.wlwt.com/newsarchive/14708759/detail.html
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FORMER TOP BRASS CALL FOR END OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
STARS & STRIPES - Twenty-eight retired generals and admirals released a
letter on Friday urging Congress to repeal the 'don't ask, don't tell'
law, according to a report in Friday's New York Times. The letter's
release marked the 14th anniversary of the policy that allows gay men
and lesbians to serve in the military but only if they keep their
orientation secret. . . The officers said in the letter that "scholarly
data show" that 65,000 gay men and lesbians now serve in the American
armed forces and that there are more than 1 million gay veterans. "They
have served our nation honorably," the letter states.
Although the signers of the letter are high-ranking, none is of the
stature of Gen. John Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff when the policy was adopted and who now argues for its repeal,
the Times noted. Shalikashvili refocused attention on the issue earlier
this year when he wrote in a New York Times op-ed that conversations
with military personnel had prompted him to change his position.
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50649
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