Amy Kosanovich Dickerson and Kendra Yoch of Franczek Radelet P.C. write: The Firearm Concealed Carry Act (CCA) went into effect in 2013. One of its provisions requires a principal or designee to make a report to the Illinois Department of State Police (ISP) “when a student is determined to pose a clear and present danger…
Category: Youth & Schools
PA: Local Police Director Wants Laws Protecting Student Records Loosened in Midst of School Shootings
NBC10 reports: In Bensalem, Bucks County, the school district has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on some 500 surveillance cameras in and around its facilities. But the township police director, Fred Harran, doesn’t think they are enough. He is pushing for preventative measures on another front. Harran wants Pennsylvania lawmakers to give greater access…
Unproven facial-recognition companies target schools, promising an end to shootings
Drew Harwell reports: The facial-recognition cameras installed near the bounce houses at the Warehouse, an after-school recreation center in Bloomington, Ind., are aimed low enough to scan the face of every parent, teenager and toddler who walks in. The center’s executive director, David Weil, learned earlier this year of the surveillance system from a church…
Russian lawmakers want to stop older teenagers from hiding their medical records from their parents
Meduza reports: Regional lawmakers from Samara have submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would limit medical privacy for minors between the ages of 15 and 17, granting their parents access to their medical records. The law’s explanatory note warns that “older adolescents are often disinclined to inform their parents about unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries sustained in…