[LM_NET] Julie Amero

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

If you have been paying attention to the growing news coverage of this case
you should certainly know by now that an incredible error has been made.
Julie is totally innocent.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/substitute_teacher_faces_
jail.html
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/OPINION/7
01200303/1014

I recently presented to the National School Board Association Leadership
Council on student Internet use management. And I am a former attorney.
Please recognize that I am an authority on these issues.

If your actions in this case were correct, then every teacher in this
country is now at risk of arrest and prosecution because from time to time
the technology will always fail.

In this case, the school district's technology director was woefully
derelict in his duties. The district was also at fault for not preparing all
teachers and students with the knowledge of what to do if the technology
fails. And the school officials unconscionably started this witch hunt to
hide their own gross inadequacies. The prosecutor clearly does not
understand technology and failed to do an appropriate investigation or to
ensure that an appropriate investigation was made, which would have
exonerated the teacher. And an inappropriate objection to evidence was made,
which resulted in totally appropriate evidence which would have exonerated
the teacher, being excluded. And the judge wrongfully excluded this
evidence. 

What were you trying to accomplish? Witch burning of an innocent victim or
justice? The answer to this is very clear.

This story now is getting "legs" and I am personally pushing for more
national coverage -- and as an authority on these issues, I have the press
connections to do so.

You have a very short time to figure out how to exonerate this innocent
woman before the entirety of your state leadership is shown to be absolute
idiots and fools.

Nancy
-- 
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyberbully.org
nwillard@csriu.org

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Aggression, Threats, and Distress. New edition, published by Research Press.

Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
Internet Safely and Responsibly. Jossey-Bass (March 16, 2007)

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