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Report: 56,000 Web Images At District
LOWER MERION, Pa. - Philly.com says an attorney for the Lower Merion school district acknowledged at least 56,000 web-cam images were taken of students over a two-year period.
The bombshell announcement on the Web site for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News will ignite the already hot debate over the district's policy of using remote surveillance technology to track the students.
The data was given to The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday by Henry Hockeimer, a school district lawyer. That information was subsequently published on Philly.com.
Hockeimer works for Ballard Spahr, a high-profile Philadelphia law firm.
He also told the Inquirer that the 56,000 images represented 80 web-tracking sessions that were activated by two school-district employees over a two-year period.
Last week, lawyers for Blake Robbins, the student behind a webcam spying lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District, said in court documents that more than 400 pictures were taken just of him using the "peeping tom technology" on his laptop.
Robbins contends that he was confronted by a Harriton High School assistant principal over images taken with his school-issued laptop's camera.
The boy says the administrator thought he was taking drugs, but he was actually eating Mike & Ike candies.
The laptop security technology used by Lower Merion schools, when activated, has the computer remotely snap incremental screenshots, webcam photos and send IP address information to help network administrators track down lost or stolen computers.
Fox 29's Claudia Gomez spoke to Attorney Hockeimer following the newspaper's report. The attorney told Claudia that the US Attorney is not going to see the web-cam photos/images the school distict has, per the judges order, so discussions are underway to give the US attorney access. The reason for this: He would like to convene a grand jury on this case.
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