Amero case spawns effort to educate - by Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-06-19 - A group of security professionals, legal experts and educators who helped former Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero overturn a conviction on charges of exposing her students to pornographic pop-up ads has formed a permanent organization that aims to educate the courts and legislators about technology, crime and digital forensics.
Alexander Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt Software and a founder of the Julie Group Taking the name of the person who brought them together, the members of the Julie Group intend to teach lawyers and end user about issues of technology and criminal law, lobby policy makers for fairness in criminal codes and regulations, and bring to light unfair prosecutions. The group will likely again offer their computer-security expertise to prosecutors and defense attorneys in future cases.
"Our helping Julie Amero was about two things: Getting Julie out of jail and making sure that something like this doesn't happen to other people," said Alexander Eckelberry, president of security firm Sunbelt Software. "We learned with Julie that giving people a voice makes a big difference."
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