Embarrassing Pictures Force Woman To Sue Former School!

Chelsea Chaney is suing her former high school after a picture of her turned up on public websites.

Since this is an issue of what you post on the social networks, we will clearly explain this story.

Even though this has nothing to do with him, Snoop Dogg (or known as Snoop Lion) continues to be in the news. This controversy once again shows that whatever you post on the internet is there "FOREVER".

I've learned this. And hopefully she'll learn this.

At least on this message she will now make sure that everything posted stays just simple. She will keep her posting on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube smaller and it may drive her away from them.

I've done it. Millions of others have too.

A woman from Georgia is suing her former high school after it was revealed that some of her pictures on the social network Facebook were turning up on the school's rules of the media policy website.

She wants $2 million in damages for the embarrassing photo being seen. She is standing near a cuttout poster of Snoop Lion. She is wearing a scantly clad bikini.

The Daily Nothing has covered this. Of course I am guessing they were hoping that Big Snoop would have some role in this so they could blame President Barack Obama for this. They reporting that Chelsea Chaney, who is now a freshman at the University of Georgia, said the photo was taken on a family vacation when she was 17 years old. She took the picture sometime ago.

Chaney posted the photo on her Facebook page, believing that only people she had accepted as Facebook friends (and, of course, their friends) would be able to see it.

The director of technology at Starr’s Mill High School then decided to show the image during a well-attended district-wide seminar focused on the long-term dangers of social media.

In the seminar, which allegedly occurred when Chaney was a student at the school and a minor, the caption of Chaney’s bikini-clad photo was allegedly: “Once it’s there, it’s there to stay.”

“I was embarrassed. I was horrified,” Chaney told a WSB-TV reporter. “It never crossed my mind that it would ever — that this would ever happen to me.”

The school official allegedly failed to obtain — or, apparently, even try to obtain — Chaney’s or her parents’ permission.

The unnamed school official did later apologize, in writing, explaining that the image had been “randomly chosen.”

Chaney did not accept the apology. She also remains skeptical of the motive.

“I just don’t think it was random,” she said. “It wasn’t my main picture. You had to go looking through it.”

Pete Wellborn, an attorney now representing Chaney and her family, told the ABC affiliate that he has filed a lawsuit on her behalf for $2 million, alleging that the school district violated federal law, state law and Chaney’s constitutional rights.

Wellborn maintains that a person does not cede rights to others by posting images on Internet sites such as Facebook.

“Their idea that putting something on Facebook gives them a license to steal it and carte blanche to do with it what they did is wrong ethically, it’s wrong morally and it’s absolutely wrong legally,” the attorney argued.

“I just don’t want this to happen to another student,” Chaney added, according to the station.

The school district denied legal liability but otherwise declined to comment on the litigation.

Snoop Dogg appears on Doggystyle Records/RCA Records.

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