Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.
6 years old.
She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I'm more concerned because I think she DIDN'T violate any laws.
1) child who doesn't look like neighbors exists;
2) child has parents who live at a given address (or, child lives at given address);
3) tell someone else items 1&2
I grew up in the days of phone books, when it was normal to go from a name to an address and phone number.
Sure, adding in the info on the parents' country of origin was icing (ahem) on the cake, but wasn't needed for the report to be just as deadly if this had been a real site and not a honeypot for racist a-holes.
@AnotherJen @mekkaokereke please tell me you’re joking. She used school databases to look up privileged information, which is a violation of FERPA. If I did that at my job (I work for a DME supplier), at the very least I’d be fired for violating HIPPA laws.
(Ignoring your other problematic statements.)
@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I missed the point where she said she looked them up in the school files. 2x playback on youtube.
But my concern remains: you don't need access to confidential info to fink someone out. Saying that I didn't think it was illegal doesn't mean I think it's right.
And THAT'S what disturbs me: how easy it is to turn someone over to the US's face-masked, pepper-spraying, warrant-omitting band of public executioners.
I'm delighted to find out that this particular person may have broken the law in her enthusiastic persecution of someone with skin darker than neighborhood averages.
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