Category Archives: Cyberethics

KSNV (News3 Las Vegas) Schedules Televised Panel Discussion on Educator Misconduct (Media) [Updated 2016-05-31]

NBC affiliate KSNV (News3 Las Vegas) will be taping a panel discussion next month about the issue of educator misconduct in the state of Nevada and across the nation. I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to participate in the panel discussion. I will update this post with additional information regarding panel…

TX Teacher’s Aide Pleads Guilty to Sexting and Improper Relationship with Student

Sometime during the middle of the 2013-2014 school year, Kearney Day, a 20-year-old teacher’s aid in the Allen Independent School District, used the Kik messaging app to start chatting with an unnamed 16-year-old student. In April 2014, the student told members of the Allen High School administration that she and Day were in a relationship.…

PA Teen Pleads Guilty to Collecting and Sharing Nude Photos of Classmates on Dropbox

A teenager at the heart of a significant sexting scandal at North Penn High School in Landsdale, PA, entered a guilty plea on March 22. Brandon Tyler Berlin, 19, pleaded guilty to a single charge of “transmission of sexually explicit images by a minor,” a misdemeanor. Under the terms of his plea deal, he was…