Crime & Safety

Police Say Harriton Webcam Victim Drove Unregistered Vehicle

Blake Robbins faces two citations from Lower Merion police.

The Penn Valley teenager who got a $175,000 settlement after complaining his -issued laptop computer's camera spied on him has been cited for driving an unregistered vehicle and displaying a license plate on the wrong vehicle, court records show.

Blake Robbins, 17, was pulled over Nov. 26 at an unspecified location in Lower Merion, and the citations were filed Nov. 30 with Magisterial District Judge Kathleen Valentine in Ardmore, the records show. No further court dates have been scheduled in the case.

Robbins' complaint drew worldwide attention to the Lower Merion School District, which had been using a laptop theft-tracking feature that took intermittent automatic photographs. In October 2010, eight months after the allegations, in which $175,000 from the district's insurer was placed in a trust accessible by Robbins once he turns 18 in May 2012.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer and Main Line Times also reported on the citations this week.


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