Filing states student broke rules and had no expectation of privacy

[Hannah Bell]

....claimed Robbins lost any legal protection from the Web-camera security system when he took a school laptop home without permission.... Cafiero's attorney, Charles Mandracchia, wrote in the filing...It was not immediately clear if the school district agreed with any of the arguments...

Interviewed by the federal agent in Mandracchia's Skippack law office, Cafiero told of activating students' laptop cameras three times, by request, in the 2008-09 school year - and once last fall to track down a student teacher's lost computer, her attorney said. "She had nothing at all to do with Blake Robbins..."

He said Cafiero did not invoke her Fifth Amendment protections...in response to any of the FBI agent's questions, though she had done so earlier when the Robbinses' lawyer, Mark S. Haltzman, sought to question her...for the family's civil suit. A "baseless fishing expedition" was how Mandracchia described Haltzman's formal request...Mandracchia also railed against Haltzman's claim, in an earlier filing, that Cafiero "may be a voyeur" who sent pictures to her home computer... in essence labeling her a sexual deviant...false, outrageous and without any basis," Mandracchia wrote...

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