Webcams in Classrooms: How Far is Too Far?

Journal of Law and Education, Apr 2004 by Braggs, Dominique

41. § 37-3-83. School Safety Grant Program. The school board will adopt a comprehensive school safety plan and update it annually. The services available are metal detectors, video surveillance cameras, crisis management teams, violence prevention training, and school safety personnel. As part of the school safety program the Department of Education may study the feasibility of using video cameras to reduce discipline problems in the classroom, give teachers a tool to prove disruptive behavior, and enable teachers to review performance and get feedback.

42. Dillion, supra, n. 25.

43. Shaun B. Spencer, Security vs. Privacy: Reframing the Debate, 79 Denv. U. L. Rev. 519, 520 (2002).

44. Id.

45. Id.

46. Id.

47. Toppo, supra, n. 24.

48. Using Webcams in School, supra n. 17.

49. Patrick Thibodeau, FTC, Eli Lilly Settle Privacy Case, (available at http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,67517,00.html) (Jan. 18, 2002).

50. Spencer, supra, n. 42.

51. Susswein, supra, n. 3. at 563.

52. Volokh, supra, n. 7. at 110.

53. Security Video May Hold Massacre Clues, (available at http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/23/school.shooting.02/index.html) (Apr. 23, 1999).

54. Toppo, supra, n. 24. Roy Balentine was the principal at Pearl High School in 1997. He now works for the security firm that installed the webcams in Biloxi classrooms.

55. Id.

56. Id.

57. Id. The policy in Biloxi may not be implemented in other areas.

58. Volokh, supra, n. 7. at 111.