July 27, 2001
Computer Searches in Public Labs Are Legal, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge has ruled that privacy laws do not protect data that college students store on hard drives in public computer labs.
U.S. Chief District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby issued the ruling in late June in a criminal case in which Frederick W. Butler Jr., a student at the University of Maine at Augusta, was charged with receiving child pornography on a University of Southern Maine computer. Pornographic images had been found on the hard drives of PC's that Mr. Butler had used
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