Researchers led by the head of a Florida anti-spyware firm aim to recreate what caused a Connecticut school's classroom computer to start displaying pornographic pop-ups in October 2004, an incident that recently led to four felony convictions for the substitute teacher involved.
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Thanks for keeping this alive Frank, interesting update.
The word appears to be out now. I notice there are quite a few articles dedicated to this story (via a search of Google News). This is grassroots advocacy at it’s finest!
When the dust settles, and the teacher’s conviction is overturned, I’d hate to be the Norwich School Board. Can you imagine the civil lawsuit for damages this teacher is going to file?
Not to mention that it is they who should be in the dock on the same or similar charges.
The following may not be a miscarriage of justice but it certainly is a travesty. 
http://mlranm.blogspot.com/
For over two years now Julie has been the subject of many misconceptions as to what really happened in 2004. What many people do not understand is that the “Children’s Internet Protection Act” is a Federal Law enacted by Congress in December 2000. The FCC issued rules implementing CIPA in early 2001. In part the law requires Schools and libraries to have policies and technology “IN PLACE” to block or filter internet access to pictures that are a) obscene, b) child pornography, c) are harmful to minors, for computers that are accessed by minors. There is more, but you get the idea. It is not the substitute teacher’s responsibility to put these controls in place. It is the BoE’s responsibility. By their own admission, the Norwich BoE did not have these protections in place for a number of months / years?? No one except the IT director and his boss Pam Aubin really knows at this point how long the system was unprotected. It is with no surprise that the Norwich BoE has done everything in its power to make sure that the substitute teacher was arrested and brought to justice for this crime. Someone’s head had to go on the block, for if the parents of the Norwich children knew that is was their administrators that they so whole heartily placed their faith in to protect the children’s morals had so deceived them, what would be next.Defending Julie against this gross abortion of justice has been very expensive. Up to this point, a valid defense fund was not required, but we have used up most of out life’s savings and we are coming up to sentencing in less than four weeks. We are hoping to bond Julie out of jail while she awaits her appeal. I have established a pay pal account in Julie’s name. Many of you have asked how you can help, now is the time. Please visit the site below and contribute what you can. All donations will be utilized exclusively for Julie’s defense. Any remaining contributions will be donated to organizations that are dedicated to vindicating unjustly accused victims of technology.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/OPINION/701200303/1014
Some new links on the case:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/434
http://eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=42
This is what Julie is up against:
http://bulletineducationblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/enough.html
According to the journalist who covered the case for the local paper: “Here are the facts: Amero showed graphic pornography to up to 10 children in a Kelly Middle School class, according to a police investigation.”
The facts of the case as revealed in the links above are that the computer was plagued by porn pop-ups because of neglect by the school administration (they had neglected to update security or content filtering software) and that Julie actively prevented students from viewing the pop-ups. Latest evidence suggests that the computer screen was not even visible to students while seated…
Julie will be sentences on 2 March.
Support can be expressed here:
http://julieamer.blogspot.com/index.html
Make a small donation to the defence fund if you can or just leave a message of support.
There is a big ‘lead piece’ ’ Pop-up ads can land you in jail,’ in the Windows Secrets Newsletter • Issue 97 • 2007-02-22.
A hoax or true? Either way, I think somebody knows exactly what happened that day…
http://idiocracy.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/julie-amero-and-the-porn-pop-ups-the-secret-story/
The story is “worldwide” now. See link for article and photo in the London Times:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1464355.ece
Here’s another very good article:
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/willard/willard005.shtml
Anyone who believes Julie Amero is innocent can leave a message of support for her here:
Excellent podcast discussion:
Anyone who believes Julie Amero is innocent can leave a message of support for her here:Unfortunately unless she's found not guilty by the courts, all the support in the world wouldn't help..... :'(
This one doesn’t involve computers, so it’s maybe off topic.
If it gets deleted, I understand.
Unfortunately unless she's found not guilty by the courts, all the support in the world wouldn't help.....
If you feel that way, you can leave a donation to help with legal expenses, because being found not guilty by the courts usually means having a good lawyer.
http://julieamer.blogspot.com/
here’s a site to look at 
oops!is this off topic… ??? :
FFW,
It’s not how I feel it just happens to be a fact of life.
I’m sure all the messages of support for Julie from members of the IT community are helping a lot in boosting her moral, and the huge tide of opinion from people who really know about the subject that the evidence presented at the trial was just plain wrong is going to lead to the presentation of an irresistible case for the verdict to be overturned at appeal. Support from people in the IT community is also helping with new forensic evidence and also in bringing the case to the attention of specialist lawyers who have also raised concerns about the verdict and become involved in the case. The donations are helping Julie mount a legal challenge to an obviously unfair verdict.
In short, all the support in the world (literally, as support is coming from all over the world) is helping.
The full transcript of the trial is available here:
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS01/702250334