This question came up, and since I didn’t know the answer–and felt I should–I looked it up.
Someone has created an inappropriate my space page for one of our Principals. Does anyone know the steps to get the page removed?
I found this on MySpace:
How do we remove an imposter profile for a teacher/faculty member?
Solution:
Please email the web address of the profile to MySpace.com with as much details as you can provide through this form. We will not honor any other unrelated requests through this form.
The answer is to complete this form. Of course, if a school district is blocking MySpace.com, getting to the form may be a bit difficult.
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Miguel – there are some other questions I might ask to consider action steps on this issue.Is this off-campus speech? If it is, that significantly restricts potential action taken against the student. While that does not directly impact your question, sometimes we look to take action on students who do these things without recognizing their off-campus speech rights.Since you indicated that Myspace is blocked on campus, it is highly likely that this occurred off-campus. If that is the case, the school organization may have limits to resulting actions.The individual principal, on the other hand, may have a valid case for libel or defamation of character depending on the content. Either way, it is the individual’s issue, not the school’s issue.My reaction would be to ask the parents in and work with them to raise an awareness of the issue, but I, as a technology director, would not ask for the removal of content. That should be the burden of the individual principal and done in conjunction with parents.The best case scenario is the parents work with the child to remove it. The worst case is that no cooperation exists, and the principal pushes the issue with Myspace.They are quite helpful at Myspace (a little too helpful if you ask me).Joel
Miguel – there are some other questions I might ask to consider action steps on this issue.Is this off-campus speech? If it is, that significantly restricts potential action taken against the student. While that does not directly impact your question, sometimes we look to take action on students who do these things without recognizing their off-campus speech rights.Since you indicated that Myspace is blocked on campus, it is highly likely that this occurred off-campus. If that is the case, the school organization may have limits to resulting actions.The individual principal, on the other hand, may have a valid case for libel or defamation of character depending on the content. Either way, it is the individual’s issue, not the school’s issue.My reaction would be to ask the parents in and work with them to raise an awareness of the issue, but I, as a technology director, would not ask for the removal of content. That should be the burden of the individual principal and done in conjunction with parents.The best case scenario is the parents work with the child to remove it. The worst case is that no cooperation exists, and the principal pushes the issue with Myspace.They are quite helpful at Myspace (a little too helpful if you ask me).Joel