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Posted on November 30 at 10:08 a.m.
What is your policy concerning a Letter to the Editor which consist of facts, and appears to accurately be claiming the schools superintendent, Dennis Thompson, is committing a crime?
Would such a letter not get published due to a reason stated in your column above?
For example, what if a community resident wanted to write a Letter to Editor about what Thompson actually said in response to a teacher's emailed question on the district's TV show, "e-connections" broadcast at 9PM on Comcast channel 20 on Satuday, Nov. 22, 2008?
On that show, a teacher emailed to ask if Thompson could take a "Clinical Educator" course so that Thompson is not so "intrusive" in his unannounced surprise visits to classrooms.
Thompson responded by failing to disclose the true material facts: that he is INELIGIBLE for such training - since he is NOT actually a Florida K-12 educator. (Nor has he ever been a K-12 teacher anywhere.)
Instead of telling the truth about his background, Thompson just brushed off these material facts, and claimed he will continue to "diagnose" the teaching of every teacher in this district and make reports to the teachers' supervising principals in his unannounced visits to classrooms.
What if someone wrote to you about that?
And what if a parent then objected to these disturbances, as such may prevent her child from learning?
Or, what if someone wrote a letter saying that since your newspaper recently reported that law enforcement arrested a scam artist on a misdemeanor charge for pretending to be a "contractor"
-- as explained below -- that perhaps police should likewise arrest Dennis THompson for impersonating a teacher/Clinical Educator, since someone "diagnosing teaching" -- without meeting FL state standards as a teacher or CLinical Educator -- can't possibly be do that when bursting into classrooms unannounced?
Would such letters to the editor get published? Or, would these letters be ineligible for publication because they are too negative in tone?
BTW, here's the scam artist arrested for pretending to be a contractor:
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/n...
In May, a week after pleading to $85,000 worth of scams...and a misdemeanor count of falsely identifying himself as a contractor....Collier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier, who doesn't take scams lightly...
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/n...
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Finally, I made a new parody blog about what I see as CCPS administration's attitude toward this community:
"We Don't Follow No Stinkin' Law!"
http://www.wedontfollownostinkinlaw.b...
On Jeff Lytle: Survey shows one thing for sure: Readers have passion for letters
Posted on November 30 at 8:42 a.m.
Along with changes in journalism, it would be useful to the community if local newspapers would commit to doing more investigative reporting.
For example, here is a suggestion for a fun project to get this newspaper started:
Why not publish transcripts of the public school district's TV program "e-connections" here in The Naples Daily News?
That way, your readers can read how many false and inaccurate answers are given each week by those in charge of this school district, who pretend to address concerns of teachers and community members who email questions to this program.
And, then, when your readers point out all these bogus responses, the Naples Daily News could perhaps send out an "investigative reporter" to find out WHY the superintendent can't give an accurate answer to certain questions, and WHY the host of the program never does any follow-up questions (and merely smiles at his responses, including those replies that your readers may be able to immediately identify as inaccurate and deliberately misleading).
Then, you'd have what's called: investigate NEWS reports to print here in your NEWSPAPER.
Just a polite suggestion, as despite all the changes in journalism: I think people are still interested in reading actual NEWS in a local newspaper. But, they usually can't find any.
Here's another fun project that your readers have been suggesting for over a year now:
publish a list of salaries and titles of all persons working in the CCPS Administrative Center, so the community can see just how much top-heavy unneeded management is raking in over $100K a year from the taxpayers in this county. It can't be that hard to demand public records from this school district...or is it?
I made a new parody blog about this school district's upper management -- and what I see as its attitude toward this community:
"We Don't Follow No Stinkin Law!" is the name of my new parody blog here:
http://www.wedontfollownostinkinlaw.b...
Posted on November 30 at 8:42 a.m.
Along with changes in journalism, it would be useful to the community if local newspapers would commit to doing more investigative reporting.
For example, here is a suggestion for a fun project to get this newspaper started:
Why not publish transcripts of the public school district's TV program "e-connections" here in The Naples Daily News?
That way, your readers can read how many false and inaccurate answers are given each week by those in charge of this school district, who pretend to address concerns of teachers and community members who email questions to this program.
And, then, when your readers point out all these bogus responses, the Naples Daily News could perhaps send out an "investigative reporter" to find out WHY the superintendent can't give an accurate answer to certain questions, and WHY the host of the program never does any follow-up questions (and merely smiles at his responses, including those replies that your readers may be able to immediately identify as inaccurate and deliberately misleading).
Then, you'd have what's called: investigate NEWS reports to print here in your NEWSPAPER.
Just a polite suggestion, as despite all the changes in journalism: I think people are still interested in reading actual NEWS in a local newspaper. But, they usually can't fid any.
Here's another fun project that your readers have been suggesting for over a year now: publish a list of salaries and titles of all persons working in the CCPS Administrative Center, so the community can see just how much top-heavy unneeded management is raking in over $100K a year from the taxpayers in this county. It Can't be that hard to demand public records from this school district...or is it?
I made a new parody blog about this school district's upper management -- and what I see as its attitude toward this community:
"We Don't Follow No Stinkin Law!" is the name of my new parody blog here:
http://www.wedontfollownostinkinlaw.b...
Posted on November 27 at 12:50 p.m.
And, from today's article in the NY Times about this verdict:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/us/...
...Although it was unclear how severely Ms. Drew would be punished — the jury reduced the charges to misdemeanors from felonies, and no sentencing date was set — the conviction was highly significant, computer fraud experts said, because it was the first time that a federal statute designed to combat computer crimes was used to prosecute what were essentially abuses of a user agreement on a social networking site.
Under federal sentencing guidelines, Ms. Drew could face up to three years in prison and $300,000 in fines, though she has no previous criminal record. Her lawyer has asked for a new trial....
Legal and computer fraud experts said the application of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, passed in 1986 and amended several times, appeared to be expanding with technology and the growth of social networking on the Internet. More typically, prosecutions under the act have involved people who hack into computer systems.
“Keep in mind that social networking sites like MySpace did not exist until recently,” said Nick Akerman, a New York lawyer who has written and lectured extensively on the act. “This case will be simply another important step in the expanded use of this statute to protect the public from computer crime.”
...Mr. Akerman, the computer fraud expert, said jail time was common even for first-time offenders in computer fraud cases.
Posted on November 27 at 12:47 p.m.
A lot of interesting news coming out about cyber crimes lately (see my own posted complaint of cyber crimes by GatorHatero7 on this newspaper forum, in my above posts #81-82, and earlier posts I made about FL law prohibiting cyber crime, in my posts #91-94 and earlier on this thread).
According to the attorney for the accused (and now convicted) Lori Drew, in the recently publicized national case concerning the MySpace forum and a teen's subsequent suicide, here is what happened, as Drew's attorney stated on his web site:
"The government's theory in the Lori Drew case is that it is a federal crime to intentionally violate the Terms of Service on a website, and that it becomes a more serious crime — a felony rather than a misdemeanor — if the Terms of Service are violated to further a criminal or tortious act.
The tortious act the government alleged is intentional infliction of emotional distress, which in this case was alleged to have led to Meier's suicide.
The jury agreed that it is a federal crime to intentionally violate the Terms of Service on a website...
The next step in the case is that the trial judge will rule on whether there was enough evidence for the jury to find that Drew violated the Terms of Service intentionally...
If the judge agrees that there was enough evidence for the jury to find that Drew violated the Terms of Service intentionally, the case will go on to sentencing for the crime of having violated MySpace's Terms of Service..."
Posted on September 23 at 12:29 p.m.
I am glad so many people have enjoyed visiting my parody blogs, and I hope you continue to do so:
http://labbottsaysvisitrockford.blogs...
http://dennisthompsonbackgroundquiz.b...
Posted on September 23 at 12:28 p.m.
And, in case you missed it the first two times I posted it, here, again, is the legal disclaimer posted about my parody blogs, which I created about PUBLIC OFFICIALS who are elected school board members, and the current superintendent whom I believe is here illegally, and I am speaking because I am a community member and a highly qualified Florida certified teacher with an outstanding record of achievement in education:
http://labbottsaysvisitrockford.blogs...
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Posted on September 23 at 12:25 p.m.
And, again, the form I used to file my criminal complaint this morning against a person on this forum whom I believe has been continuously cyber stalking me for months now, as the evidence will clearly show, is this form:
Posted on September 23 at 12:23 p.m.
(continued from above)
DON'T defend yourself. Most people naturally want to defend themselves, but a reaction from you is just what the harasser wants. They are "fishing" for someone to latch onto and harass.
Lurk (i.e., read messages and don't respond or post any) on newsgroups, message boards, mailing lists, chat rooms, etc. before "speaking" or posting messages.
Ego Surf. Put your first name and last name in quotes in a search engine such as Yahoo!, Google or Dogpile and see if there are any results regarding you. Better yet, use TracerLock to do it for you on a regular basis, and the service is free.
Never give your password to anyone, especially if someone sends you an IM. Your ISP will never ask you for your password while you are online or via email.
Don't provide your credit card number or other identifying information as proof of age to access or subscribe to a web site run by a company you are not familiar with.
Instruct children to never, ever give out personal information - their real name, address, or phone number online without your permission.
Be very cautious about putting any pictures of yourself or your children online anywhere, or allowing anyone else (relatives, schools, dance academies, sports associations) to publish any photos. Some stalkers become obsessed with an image. A random email address or screen name is simply much less attractive to most obsessive personalities than a photograph.
For more information, visit Halt Abuse or the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence
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Posted on December 1 at 10:04 a.m.
Very interesting article.
And, speaking of lawsuits -- if there are any budding law or education students out there doing research on what goes on in public school districts, you may enjoy reading my new parody blog.
It is a spoof of an official handbook of upper management (the district administrators), of Collier County Public Schools. The title of this new handbook/parody blog is:
"We Don't Follow No Stinkin' Law!"
http://www.wedontfollownostinkinlaw.b...
Enjoy.
On Pelican Bay couple decks halls of justice with decoration lawsuit