I never really considered it to be a territorial issue as much as it was for her to seize the only win-win outcome for herself:
Jeanie already faced-off (or rather, kicked in the face) Mr. Rooney, mistaking him for a normal burglar. Seeing that he was correctly pursuing Ferris for truancy (meaning Ferris was truant, not that his methods were justified)--and knowing the futility of law enforcement in the situation--she claimed her win over Mr. Rooney here by excusing Ferris' behavior and absence, which Mr. Rooney could not contest.
With Ferris, it is true she failed to justify hers and Ferris' inequitable treatment, as we remember from her voice-over in the school hallways ('why should Ferris get away with everything? ...after all I got a car, he got a computer...'). But, I speculate that getting home before Ferris would be her way to gain leverage over him.
The opportunity, however, to humiliate/deprive Mr. Rooney and indebt Ferris ultimately was probably more appealing than the inevitable shattered, broken happy home that would occur when their parents' found out he isn't such an angel as they believed.
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