peters v east penn township school district

After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images. School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home.

The suit alleged that, in what was dubbed the ' WebcamGate' scandal, the schools secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes. In October 2010, the school district agreed to pay $610,000 to settle the Robbins and parallel Hasan lawsuits against it. Lower Merion School District is a federal class action lawsuit, brought in February 2010 on behalf of students of two high schools in Lower Merion Township, a suburb of Philadelphia. Lower Merion School District (filed July 27, 2010) McGinley, Superintendent of Lower Merion School District Lower Merion School District, the Board of Directors of the Lower Merion School District, and Christopher W. Robbins, individually, and on behalf of all similarly situated persons v.

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvaniaīlake J.

Peters v east penn township school district