Paige Rogers reports: “Turning massive amounts of personal data about public school students to a private corporation without any public input is profoundly disturbing and irresponsible.” ~Donna Lieberman, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Data-mining is the new gold rush, with student data (which is sometimes referred to as human capital) forming the new…
Category: Youth & Schools
Body searches of 900 Georgia students by sheriff’s office leads to $3 million settlement
Susan Hogan reports: In April, law enforcement from Georgia’s Worth County descended on a high school and, without a warrant, conducted body searches on an estimated 900 students, touching some students’ genitals and breasts. They said they were searching for drugs. They found none. A class-action federal lawsuit soon followed, and the sheriff and two deputies were…
NYC Parent files FERPA complaint to US Department of Education on DOE disclosures to charter schools
On Monday, Nov. 6, Johanna Garcia, President of the Community Education Council in District 6 and a public school parent, filed a FERPA complaint with the US Department of Education, challenging the right of the NYC Department of Education to release her child’s personal information to charter schools without her consent, for the purpose of…
Court orders Baylor to disclose confidential records
This is one of those “balancing” situations. Phoebe Suy reports: Baylor lost its fought to prevent the disclosure of certain confidential medical and counseling records on Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman ordered the university to disclose information under limited conditions. “The issues at stake in this action are indisputably important, and data…