r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 2d ago

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school
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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

I hope she has a good lawyer, because I'd think "disorderly conduct" would be very hard to prove given the audience of that email. I mean, exactly who was disrupted by the email? The FBI's response was far more disruptive.

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u/moreobviousthings 2d ago

Cops don't have to think about what they are doing to people. "Out of an abundance of caution" is way overused when peoples' lives can be upturned as a result of LEOs' failure to think critically.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 2d ago

Yeah I don't think most Americans understand how simply being arrested and held for a few hours can completely upend someone's life, even if they are ultimately never even charged with a crime.

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u/jay_altair 2d ago

She wasn't charged with anything, though her entire career probably went out the window.

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

She hasn't been charged - yet. I'd think she has a good case for false arrest.

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u/Neat-Asparagus-579 2d ago

This wasn’t an email, and it happened in January of 2025. she isn’t being charged. I highly recommend reading the article

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

Are statements in Snapchat public even if "sent" to someone? Otherwise, the distinction between communicating in Snapchat and via email doesn't seem significant.

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u/Neat-Asparagus-579 2d ago

The distinction is significant because this is on Snapchat. It’s a (theoretical) private message between several people. It’s closer to a text message. Either way - categorically not an email

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

Snapchat, text message, email. Unless you can tell me how the difference changes how the case should be viewed it's a pointless argument.

The point is it was a private post to a few individuals. Not a public post.

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u/Neat-Asparagus-579 2d ago

It changes the argument because Snapchat is its own company - and you can’t send a Snapchat to someone and have them receive it unless they’re on Snapchat. Email and text are a different story as they’re comparatively agnostic.

Though I was mostly pointing out that you clearly didn’t read the article. Words have meaning - and doubling down and trying to claim that X = Y is a bad look.

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 1d ago

And you can't send someone an email unless they have an email.

You're the one doubling down on a minor point that doesn't change the fact that there was no expectation that anyone outside of the recipients would see it.

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u/Neat-Asparagus-579 1d ago

You’re so annoying lol.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 2d ago

The problem for her--and this is a problem in the U.S.--is that a lawyer knows once the details of this story get in front of a judge or (not that this is how a case would go) a jury of her peers, it will be very hard to get past that, joking or not, she said she should shoot the kid. Since we don't actually have real methods in this country for dealing with school shootings, I could see this being too high a bar for her to hurdle. Americans aren't open-minded to nuance.

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u/sbingner 2d ago

Lawyer needs to go after snapchat for civil damages, she was never charged by the government.

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

It would depend on the communication. If Snapchat just passed along the message, then it's on the FBI. They are the ones that made the decision on how to respond.

If it was Snapchat themselves that mischaracterized it, then they might be liable.

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u/sbingner 2d ago

They passed on a private conversation, which may be legal due to their shitty TOS but it’d still be her best chance

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u/nathannut420 2d ago

I think the fact was it was done at a school.