School recording children's family lives via laptops. You have kids going to school, you need to see this. (TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF FREAKING SCHOOLS)
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🧐 Investigations Needed 🤔
This is stupid your first move should have been the cops
Agree, a child is involved so notify the local sheriff because Sheriffs are the only law enforcement officials in the state of Maryland who answer directly to the people.
She mentions the SRO, which probably stands for school resource officer. In my area the SRO is a sheriff's deputy. That might be why the school refused to give her the SRO's contact info.
Spying on kids and their families is part of the terms of use for Google Classroom, so I don't think that the sheriff can do anything since the parents agreed to the usage terms.
Did they, though? Court cases on phone agreements and some software agreements have ruled they are too long and complex for an average person to get through on a reasonable amount of time and that they are written in legalese that the average person won't fully comprehend.
I am willing to bet that most sheriffs will say that whether the terms and conditions apply in their particular case is a civil court issue, not a criminal issue. I suspect that most sheriffs will not want to get involved because of Google's powerful allies.
Good indication that a new sheriff is needed.
Terms & Conditions cannot override your rights (i.e. your right to privacy) - especially when everyone who might be spied upon would have to agree to that policy as well.
Spying is a criminal matter. By tricking people into agreeing to be spied upon, it because a civil matter as to whether it was a lawful agreement, and thus the law enforcement agencies won'r get involved.
Mine would be IT first.