[ale] [WAY OT] Ethics Question

[Jonathan Glass]

http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00620021104tb01.htm&vf=crm&rcode=r006

I forgot to mention that this is HIGH SCHOOL, and the students in question are
minors.  Here's the article..sorry, forgot to post it the first time around.

Jonathan

Quoting Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu>:

> On another mailing list, I received an article.  The subject of the
> article was
> asking about the ethical implications of finding incriminating email
> from a
> teacher to a student on a High School mail server.  Should the tech turn
> the
> data over the authorities or keep quiet.  Apparently the Superintendent
> and the
> Principal want the tech to leave it alone.
> 
> My question to the group:
> Should the author of the article be responsible for sending this
> information the
> FBI/local police, whether or not the subject of the article decides to
> act?  
> 
> My opinion: 
> Since this article is talking about child abuse by teachers, and since
> the
> school officials are covering up, I believe the author has a moral
> obligation to
> contact the authorities.  I'm so irritated that the author and subject
> have
> apparently done nothing that I'm thinking about forwarding the article
> on to the
> local FBI, even though I'm not sure if something like that is in their
> jurisdiction.  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
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Jonathan Glass
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IBB/BME
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