Web Cam Spying

A while back we heard a story about a school district that decided to play nanny. I kind of understand their desire to make sure their students weren't abusing the school's property, but if you think about it, including web cam spying software, and then using it for any purpose beyond recovering a stolen laptop is just a simple "invasion of privacy".
Any way, there are other laws and things to consider, like child porn and other, similar laws that could get the school district into a lot of trouble if they abuse this. And they did abuse it.

Here is a quick time line of what happened:
PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams
Thursday February 18, @12:52

FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case
Saturday February 20, @10:20

PA School Defends Web-Cam Spying As Security Measure, Denies Misuse
Sunday February 21, @14:27

School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre
Monday February 22, @12:52

Federal Judge Orders Schools To Stop Laptop Spying
Tuesday February 23, @17:03

PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort
Saturday March 13, @07:37

Lower Merion School District Update
Friday April 16, @10:53

It seems they know they are in trouble, and if any of the pictures includes something that could be considered child pornography, I hope the feds (FBI) charges someone with Making Child Pornography.