Shortly after the news started to catch on that the Philadelphian school district had used the laptops they had issued to their students to spy on a kid in that kid's home, the superintendent, if I remember correctly from reading here on dKos the other day, said that they had only used that "security feature" once.
Well...
...according to this short Washington Post article and what I heard on MSNBC a short while ago...
The district says it activated the webcams to find more than 40 missing student computers....
I still have extreme difficulty believing that they were doing this to find missing computers, but either way they've now admitted to having done it 40 times. But back when the story was first coming out, again if I remember what I read the other day here on DKos correctly, they had initially said they only did it the one time. Yeah.
Also, the attorney has asked a federal judge to keep the school district from wiping data from the computers so that potential evidence can be preserved.
As to what the kid that they spied on in his own home did that was so inappropriate that they called him into the principal's office and showed him a picture of him being inappropriate, according to an attorney on Democracy Now...
Attorney Mark Haltzman: "They’re trying to allege that when Blake was holding two Mike & Ikes in his hand, which he apparently loves and eats religiously, that those were pills, and somehow he’s involved in selling drugs."
The 40-times admission and the candy-is-drugs claim are both new to me, so, having run a search and not finding anything about these new pieces of information posted on DKos, I thought I'd post them. If this is only news to me and everyone else already knows these two bits of info, let me know.