$3,000 Per Classroom School Camera System
Author: Carlton Purvis, Published on Apr 16, 2014
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Comments (8)
Rukmini Wilson
I don't think that there will be any successful challenges from the student body though, unless teachers have changed since I was there...
These laws are more generally 'eavesdropping' laws and although usually referenced in the context of making some electronic copy of a conversation, they equally apply to simple interception and disclosure when a party has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
And as this ex-4th grader can attest, in class at least, you are legally subject to interception and disclosure even when you think you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Though had I thought of it at the time, I'm sure I would have at least offered the law up as a defense, right before my handwritten and carefully folded and private declaration was both 'intercepted' and 'disclosed' to my jeering classmates.
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Undisclosed
I saw a demo of the Audio Enhancement system. I came away with a whole new insight into what is going on in the classroom. The teachers are demanding video as a way to protect themselves. I even heard one parent say that her child wanted video in the classroom too. Seems classrooms have become dangerous places to work and learn. The system started as an audio enhancement to classroom learning and they have the data to prove it. The video has been added as a multi use tool. The teachers have full control during the day and security can get the surviellance they need at night, including listen-in capabilities.
The camera is a custom panasonic 360 with some visual components added, so everyone can see the status of the cameras use. They put an eyelid type cover to show camera is not in use.
I perdict a camera in every classroom of the future!
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Richard Lavin
It's only tangentially related to this post, but I wonder what effect these anti-eavesdropping statutes have on the use of Lecture Capture Systems. Lecture Capture Systems are becoming increasingly common in university settings. They are starting to work their way down into high school and, as this post demonstrates, junior high and elementary level classrooms. For a university in Michigan, would they need to get explicit consent from every student before they could record lectures? Perhaps they could just notify the students (and/or the students' parents) that the lectures will be recorded and then they could claim that the student attending the lecture constitutes implied consent?
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Chris Lobozzo
Where the heck is the Michigan Teachers Union on this? We have had to pull cameras out of Gyms / Off of stadiums because its considered a "Class Room" and the PSEA (PA State Education Association) will fight tooth and nail to keep cameras out of the Classrooms..
Knowing what we have dealt with here in PA makes this artical just mind blowing....
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John Honovich
Related: UK article covering concerns about growing use of cameras inside their classrooms.
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