Teen Charged with "Transmission of False Data"

at0m writes "According to this story by the Providence Journal, a 15 year old set up a fake teacher's account at SchoolNotes.com, a site where teachers can leave class notes, homework assignments and links to educational web sites for their students, which "depicted the teacher as an unpopular homosexual who molests children and dogs." A representitive of SchoolNotes.com said that they do not use the passcodes system because "the Internet was meant to be open, and with every layer of security, it just causes less openness." Maybe SchoolNotes can take some of the blame. The article concludes, "no matter what you do, somebody can track it."" Sounds like he needs to contact the Rhode Island CLU. Emailing "it's sunny today" when it's raining is a misdemeanor in Rhode Island?