School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 7, 2012 @08:05PM from the watch-how-you-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The ACLU is suing Minnewaska Area Schools and Pope County, according to this article in the StarTribune. At issue: school administrators and a sheriff's deputy forced a girl to hand over login information to her Facebook and email accounts, after she posted on Facebook that she 'hated' a school hall monitor who had been 'mean' to her, and cursed in a separate Facebook comment because someone reported her. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an order that would restrain school officials from attempts to regulate or discipline students based on speech made outside of school hours and off school property."

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Re:What about the parents? by arth1 · 2012-03-08 01:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Citizenship has little to do with it. Long time residents are also identified by the country they are tied to.
(In the case of USA, the distinction is more blurred than in most countries, because of how the country bars many people from becoming citizens, even if they've lived there their entire life.)