Nuria Martinez-Keel reports: Dove Charter School officials are being accused of illegally accessing confidential student information to send recruitment mailers to 107,000 fifth- and sixth-graders in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Department of Education made the accusation in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court. Read more on Tulsa World.
Category: Youth & Schools
Kids’ Privacy Bill Allowing for Private Suits Introduced in House
Lindsey Tonsager and Sarah Guerrero of Covington & Burling write: On January 30, House Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced the Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth (“PRIVCY”) Act, a bill that promises to be a significant overhaul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). Currently, COPPA applies only to personal information…
CA: Hart District Revises Student Privacy, Residency Policies
Raychel Stewart reports: William S. Hart Union High School District board members adopted a handful of board policies including student privacy Wednesday, in order to comply with state immigration and physical education laws. The board unanimously approved the policies, which were written by Assistant Superintendent Kathy Hunter, which dealt with district residency, student and family privacy…
Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front: Schools
Davey Alba reports on a contentious battle in Lockport, New York: LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Jim Shultz tried everything he could think of to stop facial recognition technology from entering the public schools in Lockport, a small city 20 miles east of Niagara Falls. He posted about the issue in a Facebook group called Lockportians. He…