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Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation
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I really can't believe that the police get involved in this stuff:

It has come to the attention of the Caon City School District that a number of our students have engaged in behavior where they take and pass along pictures of themselves that expose private parts of their bodies or their undergarments
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Charges could amount to a class 3 felony if students took "a picture of themselves showing a naked private body part and sent it to another person, ... received such a picture and forwarded it to another person, or ... received such a picture and retained possession of it over time
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What? High schoolers are horny and send naked pictures to each other? By all means, let's give them criminal records.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

This all has to be an excuse for cops to look at pictures of naked high schoolers, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/07/us/colorado-sexting-scandal-canon-city/index.html
 
MrX
I really can't believe that the police get involved in this stuff:





What? High schoolers are horny and send naked pictures to each other? By all means, let's give them criminal records.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

This all has to be an excuse for cops to look at pictures of naked high schoolers, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/07/us/colorado-sexting-scandal-canon-city/index.html
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Sounds like a law enforcement excuse to throw out the " Justice-involved youth " phrase again somehow.


Leave the little shits alone.
 
RogueJuror
Not only that but added to the sex offenders registry in most places, which in today's society is even worse.
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I left that out because, in this particular case, they specifically said that the students will not be placed on the sex offenders registry.

But, yes, when that happens for things like this, it's an extreme travesty.
 
What do you guys think, though?

Is this just garden-variety police overreach, or do you think these cops and/or school administrators are partially driven to do this so they can get a look at the pictures?
 
"retained possession of it over time". So even if all you did was not erased it, it's a crime? noice.

Did you notice recently signs in the casino? If you gamble or attempt to gamble under 21, you will be prosecuted and receive up to 12 month in jail. They are going after our youts :sparesomecutter:
 
MrX
What do you guys think, though?

Is this just garden-variety police overreach, or do you think these cops and/or school administrators are partially driven to do this so they can get a look at the pictures?
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Neither really IMO. I believe if you go right to the roots of it, you find good and honest intentions.

But a genuine desire to punish people who distribute kiddie porn becomes awkward bureaucratic law - which police are duty-bound to enforce - and which common sense has a very hard time penetrating.


(disclaimer - I have not read this particular case in much detail and am more expounding on similar sounding cases I have seen. I hope I'm not a million miles off-base.)
 
You're not off-base, but I don't buy it.

Law enforcement looks the other way in millions of cases where a technical infraction is not in the spirit of the law. And I don't believe for a second that they think that child-pornography laws were intended to prevent this sort of thing.
 
MrX
What do you guys think, though?

Is this just garden-variety police overreach, or do you think these cops and/or school administrators are partially driven to do this so they can get a look at the pictures?
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I don't think it's just about some coppers wanting to have a look at some teen pictures. People are addicted to wanting/demanding something be done to correct some behaviour, partly pushed by the news industry.

There was a fire in a club in Bucharest, some 30 died and 200 injured, people demanded the district councils, the city sector Mayor and the country Prime Minister resign, which they all did.

Not everything needs to be solved.

News pushers have a financial goal and are agents of political agenda. To rattle people is profitable, and helps shape a community/population inline with a certain agenda.
 
RogueJuror
I don't think it's just about some coppers wanting to have a look at some teen pictures. People are addicted to wanting/demanding something be done to correct some behaviour, partly pushed by the news industry.

There was a fire in a club in Bucharest, some 30 died and 200 injured, people demanded the district councils, the city sector Mayor and the country Prime Minister resign, which they all did.

Not everything needs to be solved.

News pushers have a financial goal and are agents of political agenda. To rattle people is profitable, and helps shape a community/population inline with a certain agenda.
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:yes::yes:
and there's that famous prison in Canon City, probably has some empty beds
 
MrX
I really can't believe that the police get involved in this stuff:





What? High schoolers are horny and send naked pictures to each other? By all means, let's give them criminal records.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

This all has to be an excuse for cops to look at pictures of naked high schoolers, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/07/us/colorado-sexting-scandal-canon-city/index.html
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Police don't make the laws. Their job is only to enforce them. Police cannot ignore complaints made by citizens in their jurisdictions.

I know you know this but it needs to be said.
 
I just saw Mudcats posts.


Anyway, if a mother calls the police and says I want to prosecute blah blah blah and it's a state statute, police cannot simply go "lol we're not doing that kids are kids ya know!".


In my several years in law enforcement I never created a law. Other people (not cops) create laws.
 
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