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Legal Hazards Of Monitoring Off-Campus Speech In The Internet Age
By Diane McMillan - Posted on March 16th, 2008
Tagged: cell phones
• free speech
• internet
• legislativenewsletter
• myspace
• off campus
• school law
• student rights
• suspension and expulsion
• legislationandregulation
By Marshall W. Grate
A public school district must exercise caution in monitoring off-campus speech. In Layshock v Hermitage School District, (WD PA 2007), a public school district was held to have violated the First Amendment rights of a senior high school student when it issued a 10-day suspension for his creation of a parody profile of the high school principal on the student’s MySpace.com website during non-school hours at the student’s grandmother’s computer.
