Friday, April 26, 2013
Virginia Commonwealth Attorney's Office investigating man who allegedly praised Boston Marathon bombings and wrote Paul VI High School in Fairfax City would be next.
Fairfax City Police have identified and interviewed the man behind a series of online posts saying Paul VI Catholic High School would be the scene of a "massacre" similar to the Boston Marathon Bombings. But an investigation has found the threats have "no nexus to terrorism," officials said Friday. The poster, who calls himself "Prophet Mohammed," praised the alleged Boston Marathon bombers in a thread on the Fairfax Underground website last week, before posting a message that read "Inshallah, Paul VI High School will be the scene of another massacre. Allahu akbar!" Sgt. Kyle Penman of the Fairfax City Police said in an e-mail to Patch on Friday his department's investigation "has found no nexus to terrorism and the threat was determined …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Fairfax City Police said the department is taking an anonymous online threat 'very seriously.'
Fairfax City police have increased their presence at Paul VI Catholic High School after a poster in a local online forum praised Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and said the school "will be the scene of another massacre." Sgt. Kyle Penman confirmed the department had launched an investigation into the threats against the school, made by an anonymous poster on the site Fairfax Underground last week. Officers and school officials are taking the posts "very seriously," Penman said. Penman and the Archdiocese of Arlington said the police department performed a sweep of the private Catholic school over the weekend, which included bomb-sniffing dogs. No threat was discovered, said Michael Donohue, the Archdiocese's director …
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Fairfax County Public Schools officials were granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction mandating the online forum remove files with grades from Fairfax High School students.
Update 5:20 p.m.: Fairfax Underground founder and administrator Cary Wiedemann responded to the suit against him tonight on his website. The full text of his response appears below. As the order was issued without notice I was not provided any chance to respond to the school board's petition. I have a very limited time to file a Motion to Dissolve, and am currently exploring the merits of doing so, but as the injunction expires on January 4th, 2013 I may well abide by this temporary order and focus my efforts on ensuring the injunction doesn't become permanent. In compliance with the injunction I am currently performing a full MySQL database backup to preserve all of the original records, as I need to modify the offending post in order to …
Administrator Cary Wiedemann responds to FCPS.
Fairfax Underground administrator Cary Wiedemann told Fairfax County Public Schools lawyers he's reluctant to remove the post that details the grades of Fairfax High School students from the 2011-12 school year. He replied Thursday night to an email sent by Fairfax County Public Schools lawyers about student information published in the Fairfax Underground thread titled "Leaked! Fairfax High School Report Cards from 2011-2012 School Year for Every Student! 2,166 page PDF file." FCPS told Wiedemann to remove the files from Fairfax Underground and keep records of "all user accounts, IP addresses and any other information about those who posted, downloaded, or accessed these files." Here is his response: This is an interesting legal and moral…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
FCPS begins investigation, demands removal of information.
UPDATE (Dec. 20, 10 a.m.): The following is from John Torre, spokesman for FCPS: Under federal law (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or FERPA), schools generally must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student's education record. We have notified Fairfax City PD. As the message to parents indicates, we are prepared to take further action if Fairfax Underground does not voluntarily take down the document that was posted. Torre adds that FCPS is working to find out how this leak occurred as quickly as possible. Fairfax City school officials and staff know about the leak and are working with FCPS and City of Fairfax Police to resolve this issue, Carolyn Dorsey, …
Rob
1:02 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
He should be charged and have to pay the Federal, State, and City police fees for the hours wasted for his veiled threat to the school. more ›