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Originally Posted by fatalelement
He has little evidence, so you can understand why someone saying "hey can you let me see all your footage because x might have happened according to my son", they might be a little hesitant.
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No, I can't understand that.
The evidence he has is his son's statement that he parked the car in a school parking lot and came back to find that someone had damaged it while it was there on school property. The damage itself is evidence that
something happened to the car. If the parking lot has cameras pointed at it, the best way to find out what happened to it is to review the footage. The footage is either going to show the source of the damage or prove that the car was not damaged there, either of which will resolve the matter with the school.
There's no expectation of privacy in a public parking lot, not even for teenagers. There are no privacy excuses for not providing the video. The only reason they would have for not allowing him to see the video is if the school officials have something to hide.
He may not have the legal right to view the video. But that doesn't mean he can't ask. And it doesn't mean he can't make an unholy nuisance of himself to the school administrator if the administrator won't cooperate. If he gets a call from a lawyer demanding the video, he might just decide whatever he's hiding is not worth it and hand it over.
And one other thing. If the school administrators say that the video doesn't show anything happening to the car, they are in essence calling the OP's son a liar. I think if they're going to imply that, they need to back it up by providing access to the video.
At this point the school appears to have an ongoing problem with continuing vandalism of cars on their parking lot, and not only are they doing nothing about it, they are obstructing the parent's efforts to get to the bottom of it and protecting the vandal. At some point the responsibility for this ongoing damage does shift to the school.