“A lawsuit claims the Harriton High School assistant principal told Blake Robbins about improper behavior and cited as evidence a photograph taken from the teens’ school issued laptop,” WTXF reports. “The district says they ‘never did and never would use such tactics as a basis for disciplinary action.’”
WTXF reports, “Parents Michael and Holly Robbins claim an assistant principal disciplined their son using an image obtained using the webcam on his district-issued laptop.”
“On Friday night, Blake Robbins spoke publicly for the first time and revealed what officials thought they caught him doing,” WTXF reports. “‘They thought I was selling drugs because they thought I was popping pills when really I was just eating Mike & Ikes. So they thought that I could possibly be selling drugs, too – which they found out they were wrong about,’ the boy told reporters. ‘I just hope that they’re not watching me.’”
“The school district says it has only utilized the security features to track stolen or missing laptops,” WTXF reports. “Lower Merion Schools issued another update on the matter after 10 p.m. Friday night. ‘At no time did any high school administrator have the ability or actually access the security- tracking software,’ the update reads. ‘We believe that the administrator at Harriton has been unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked in connection with her attempts to be supportive of a student and his family. The district never did and never would use such tactics as a basis for disciplinary action.’”
“The Robbins family decided not to stand pat on Friday. They filed a new motion seeking a temporary emergency restraining order against the district,” WTXF reports. “In the new legal documents, the family’s attorneys say Lower Merion ‘has the ability to unilaterally, arbitrarily and capriciously activate and deactivate the camera and software that is utilized to accomplish this invasion of privacy.’”
“They’re seeking the injunction to keep schools from re-activating the webcams in the future and to prevent officials from taking back laptops to delete information, possibly spoiling any evidence,” WTXF reports. “A hearing on that motion will be heard Monday in Montgomery County court. The Robbinses also want their lawsuit to be a class action, claiming the alleged spying was widespread and did harm to many students.”
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