Help Sammy out! My good friend Sam is having a little trouble on his blog. He wrote up something about a certain thing he saw, from what I understand, he did this from school. Now it seems he is in trouble for blogging in school. They CLAIM it violates their "Acceptable Use of the Division Computer System". Wait a tick, now I didn't read it word for word, but from what I skimmed (I don't have time to delve into the legal mumbo-jumbo), but I didn't see one thing about "Students of the Virginia Beach School system my not use the Division Computer System for the purpose of self expression and use of writing skills to help with anger management, these may include, but are not limited to: message boards, chat rooms, blogs and other such technologies." Did I see anything CLOSE to that? Nope! He did not violate it according to the way I read it. Now, if they try and add something in there about it and say "Hey, read it, it's in there” I’d be like, "You can't convict me of some that you didn't have a rule against at the time of the 'crime'“ Excuse me, that is against our United States Constitution. I'm no lawyer but that is the way I see it. Help Sammy out! Write or call his school, all the info is up over on his blog.

I've saved a copy of their policy on my PC, if they decide to change anything I have an old copy.

UPDATE: I just checked the United States Constitution, now I know this isn't really a "legal" United States issue here, but I would think that this would have some baring on it.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

If you don't understand that it says that you can't be punished for something they didn't have a law for at the time of the act. Again, I'm no legal guru, I learned about this stuff in 8th grade! Posted by chris at 07:19 PM Other Blogs • (0) Trackbacks