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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.

Here is the pdf: A School Administrator's Guide to MySpace.com. The process for How to Remove a False and/or Offensive Profile and How to Contact MySpace.com is on page 9 of the pdf.