School laptop spying case? Blame it on IT.

So apparently they're now blaming the IT department for not having proper procedures and controls in place. And who directs the IT director? Management, in this case the school board. If you don't tell IT to do something, it frequently doesn't get done and clearly the big picture was not seen by most people in this case.

Big mess, it's going to cost the district some big bucks.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/report-blames-it-for-bad-procedures-in-school-spying-case.ars

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/06/1925245/Lower-Merion-Schools-Report-Says-IT-Dept-Did-It-But-Didnt-Inhale

Doonesbury Say What?

"I think we should just...go back to what our Founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It's pretty simple."
-- Sarah Palin

When is her 15 minutes going to be up? I guess she's never studied the Establishment Clause.

Speaking of which, the Legal Lad podcast did a two-parter on the Establishment Clause of the Constitution here:

http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-establishment.aspx

http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-establishment-2.aspx