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Don't think the police were involved here? Regardless the [bad] police will never care and the good ones are likely mostly ignorant.

It's the judges and DAs that need to learn.

Even more so now with more carriers doing CGNAT (and this number will go up as IPv4 gets more and more expensive.)

There isn't a DA involved because it isn't a criminal matter and there isn't a judge involved (yet) because there isn't a law suit (yet). It's the local school board who needs to learn but I suspect they care more about saving face than this little boy's education or even their own. Here's hoping their appeal to the state board of education goes well.

School SROs are sworn police officers.

Good lord..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_resource_officer

(Non-American perspective.)

> How long do we reach a point until [people] finally recognize an IP address is not a person?

"But I've seen it on CSI! Everybody knows that that's how this hacker stuff works."

Well that, plus we hired an expert who said "possibly", so we've got em!

While that's not relevant in this case, the ISP can correlate an IP address and datetime to an account, which can definitely narrow down the suspects from millions/billions to a single household.