Posted 1 day ago
Can we share Ring doorbell harassment footage with local school?
We live next to a school and the kids hangout in the alleyway before and after school.
Our house is the first on that alleyway and recently gangs of kids have been pushing the ring doorbell and generally being a nuisance outside our home.
Our front door leads directly onto a public footpath and we have footage of this harassment and anti social behaviour.
They have even tried to climb over onto our back garden fence (we have a ring camera facing the garden also)
We would like to share this footage with the school so they can be identified and spoken to.
What are our rights regarding this footage and will we, in anyway, get into legal difficulties for sharing?
ADDITIONAL info to avoid confusion:
We are in the UK and we are not asking for the perpetrator's details.
We simply wish to pass the footage to the school so they can identify and deal with the situation especially as our neighbours are elderly and frail and may also feel trapped in their homes.
Our house is the first on that alleyway and recently gangs of kids have been pushing the ring doorbell and generally being a nuisance outside our home.
Our front door leads directly onto a public footpath and we have footage of this harassment and anti social behaviour.
They have even tried to climb over onto our back garden fence (we have a ring camera facing the garden also)
We would like to share this footage with the school so they can be identified and spoken to.
What are our rights regarding this footage and will we, in anyway, get into legal difficulties for sharing?
ADDITIONAL info to avoid confusion:
We are in the UK and we are not asking for the perpetrator's details.
We simply wish to pass the footage to the school so they can identify and deal with the situation especially as our neighbours are elderly and frail and may also feel trapped in their homes.
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sorted byIn the right corner you will have all the good parents with good children & on the left you will have... best not go there.
Or, probably the best thing to do is just call the school up & ask them if they want to see the footage of the kids that are actually causing the problems. Not sure you should be involving children just hanging about or bystanding? To me that would be a little over the mark.
We've had neighbours harassed over parking when they want to get on their drives, fights in the street over parking and generally behavior that makes you lose your faith in mankind, and yes 99% of the time it's women also.
We've had the police asking for camera footage over incidents where parents have eventually been banned from the street.
Sadly our school clearly do not give a damm about it all - as far as they are concerned, if it happens outside of school then it's 'not their problem' unless someone comes into the school and spreads utter lies and shouts loudest.
My wife is in the process of a formal complaint to the school governors and we're reporting them to ofstesd for their appalling failures to SEND kids as well as teachers (allegedly) mocking pupils in class (edited)
Our senior leadership team wander the immediate local area for around 20 minutes before school to stop this kind of thing from happening and it’s possible they will do the same at your school too.
I would expect a letter of apology from the students, but I would be cautious as it may cause repercussions.
You can also report to police as this is clear harassment. The police may take lead from the school due to the 'safer schools policy' that is in place. This means if the school give then all detentions, the police may not take formal action and consider the school sanctions sufficient.
If you are only sharing it with them I can't see it being an issue.
Sharing it on social media is a definite no-no obviously.
Its a pain you'll have to live with. Unless the school sends a teacher to usher the kids away at both times then its a long standing battle.
Good luck and keep us posted.