Re:Can you say... (Score 1)

Yeah, in the beginning I think they did exactly what you said, took her word at face value. As soon as they heard bomb threat the police probably went into Homeland Security mode.

My guess is that the School did an investigation of their own. When they assumed they had the evidence necessary they called the boy to the office and proceeded to call the police. They then handed the boy and the evidence over to the police. Because we're talking about national security here the police immediately threw him in the hole and called the FBI or Homeland security or both. The 12 days he sat in that cell can probably be attributed to the time it took the feds to get there and investigate the issue on their own. Once they looked at the phone records and noticed a discrepancy in the times they realized they had the wrong person and let him go.

If the principal had made sure the systems under her control were functioning properly none of this would have happened. At my company we treated the new DST like y2k because of all the patching that was necessary. We were working on the issue at least 3 months before the event itself. It was well publicized... enough for her to have taken charge and made sure the problem was resolved long before the actual date, but it wasn't. For that reason alone she is entirely at fault. In the military dereliction of duty punishment "Through neglect or culpable inefficiency. Forfeiture of two-thirds pay per month for 3 months and confinement for 3 months."