On the first day of a strict policy banning students at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School from using social networking Web sites, administrators and parents were online ferreting out those who had yet to comply. "You get to know their code names," Judy Martinek, the school's office manager, said Friday. Sister Margaret Van Velzen, principal of the Bloomfield Hills school, said the policy took effect Friday in response to concerns about students posting "nasty things on the Internet," and as an attempt to keep the children safe. Van Velzen said Friday she does not know of any other school with such a policy, nor had she received complaints about it.

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