School District

In the past two months since it originally surfaced, the Blake Robbins v. the Lower Merion School District school spying case just keeps getting bigger.

It turns out the Lower Merion School District took "thousands of webcam pictures and screen shots" of students in their homes using the LANRev "peeping tom" technology on school-issued laptops, according to a motion filed last week.

Some 400 of those were photos of Blake Robbins alone, including shots of him partially dressed or sleeping, the motion alleges. Also captured were numerous images of private instant messaging communications between 15-year-old Robbins and his friends, the motion charges.

'May Be a Voyeur'

Carol Cafiero, a technology coordinator now on leave from Harriton High School, "may be a voyeur," the motion suggests. Responding to an email Free Report - Discover the Difference of Email Marketing 2.0! from an IT staffer about how viewing students from the computer webcams amounted to a sort of "[school district] soap opera," Cafiero responded, "I know, I love it," according to the recent filing.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered that Cafiero be sanctioned US$2,500 for refusing to answer any questions in a deposition, citing her Fifth Amendment rights.