In the current environment, the dean's best course of action (provided he cares about the students and their futures) is to keep the images as far from the police as possible and try to handle it as quickly and quietly as he can.
Such is the sad but true we now find ourselves in.
It didn't happen at school, and it didn't involve school resources as far as I can tell from the article. The best course of action for the dean is to avoid dealing with the situation entirely.
There seems to be a common attitude among school administrators that anything involving students is their business. It is not.
Such is the sad but true we now find ourselves in.