State Will Pay $550,000 In Wrongful Death Of 6-year-old

The state has agreed to pay $550,000 to remedy, as much as possible, the wrongful death of David Ryan Keeley, who suffered repeated abuse at the hands of his state-appointed caretaker before he ultimately died, at age 6, of a head injury.
The money — secured through the efforts of Keeley’s paternal uncle and administrator of his estate, Norwich resident Kenneth E. Keeley Jr., and his attorneys — will be equally divided among Keeley’s surviving siblings, a 12-year-old sister who lives in Colorado and two half-siblings.

Even Online Tutors Need to be Screened, Says Dept. of Ed.

City public schools allow students at high-poverty schools to take advantage of online tutoring, which the Department of Education contracts out to a number of firms. But now it turns out that one of the firms may be off the list of tutoring firms because it used tutors in India. Read more…

Is your DBA a spy? Don’t fall victim to internal security threats

October 27, 2006 (Computerworld) — Probably 80% of the threats to corporate data come from outside the company walls, but organizations should have those pretty well under control today,” says Jerald Murphy, senior vice president and director of research operations at The Robert Frances Group. Read more…

Pedophile teachers can no longer hide dirty little secrets

AKRON — A local educator’s hidden history has helped lawmakers approve new legislation to prevent school districts from keeping quiet. Read more…