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"There's possibly some law against entering an unsecured premises with the intent of committing a crime, but if it exists I couldn't tell you want it is (maybe something like trespassing, but without the need for posting or other notification)."

The term I have heard before is criminal trespass.
I got lazy, but here is what I found on a quick check.

It seems to me (IANAL) that you would need to be deliberately trespassing with criminal intent for this to qualify as an acceptable charge to be inflicted on you.

There seems to be some facts missing from the summary and article to enable a rational 'decision', or consensus here on /.

Links from the article lead us below the tip of the iceberg.

We also have this to work with.

I claim the 'Johnny 5 defense here: "Need more input!"

"There's possibly some law against entering an unsecured premises with the intent of committing a crime, but if it exists I couldn't tell you want it is (maybe something like trespassing, but without the need for posting or other notification)."

The term I have heard before is criminal trespass.
I got lazy, but here is what I found on a quick check.

It seems to me (IANAL) that you would need to be deliberately trespassing with criminal intent for this to qualify as an acceptable charge to be inflicted on you.

There seems to be some facts missing from the summary and article to enable a rational 'decision', or consensus here on /.

Links from the article lead us below the tip of the iceberg.

We also have this to work with.

I claim the 'Johnny 5 defense here: "Need more input!"

"We have many levels of security, including internal and external protection. This information was not accessible outside of the school district," she said.

This quote comes from the Daily Gazette and I must say that if the levels of internal and external securities is easily broken with a simple password that is known by many of the faculty and students, then you have no security. This is simply a case of the Administration's Pride getting hurt and the only course of action to take is to beat down someone (in this case, the messenger).

Now, albeit one of the two teens involved (most likely the one arrested) has had some history of misuse of the computers:

One of the students has been disciplined in the past for breaking the school's code of conduct with computers

Although this could be anything from installing pirated software to setting the background to a penguin or even turning off the monitor (high schools are paranoid about students expressing individuality). I just hope that this witch trial isn't as bad as the last.

"He sent an e-mail to his principal saying, 'look what I have,'" DeFeciani [District spokeswoman] said. "That was at 1 [p.m.] Tuesday and within two hours we knew who he was."

"He sent an e-mail to his principal saying, 'look what I have,'" DeFeciani [District spokeswoman] said. "That was at 1 [p.m.] Tuesday and within two hours we knew who he was."

Ah, but then it wouldn't have been anonymous. Besides, from this article:

"He sent an e-mail to his principal saying, 'Look what I have,'" DeFeciani said. "That was at 1 [p.m.] Tuesday, and within two hours we knew who he was."

As bad with computers as teachers are (in my experience, anyway), looking at the "From" field would have taken about two seconds. Then again, it's plausible that it really did take the IT people nearly two hours to find it...