Nick Cahill reports: Hampered by widespread resistance from civil rights groups, backers of a bill that would allow California teachers and principals to search students’ cellphones pulled their proposal Wednesday. Brought by the Association of California School Administrators, Assembly Bill 165 seeks to exempt students from recently enacted digital privacy protections against warrantless cellphone and…
Category: Youth & Schools
New job-recruiting database raises privacy questions
Catherine Leffert reports: A popular software startup that Syracuse University could soon use, designed to connect college students to jobs at companies, is raising concerns about its use of students’ private information, including grade-point averages. The startup, called Handshake, has been increasing in popularity after its founding three years ago. It has so far connected…
Mom outraged when daughter, 16, gets birth-control implant after school arranges trip to clinic
From the sorry-mom-but-your-kid-has-rights-too dept: Dave Urbanski reports: An Oklahoma mother is outraged after she said her 16-year-old daughter got a birth-control implant in her arm from a Tulsa clinic during a trip there arranged by her daughter’s school. “Had I known that this field trip was for her to get that done, I would not…
Alabama Judge Considers Overturning Law Banning Teacher-Student Sex
Rob Shimshock reports: An Alabama is (sic) considering overturning a law banning sex between teachers and students who are 16- to 18-years-old. The judge is hearing a case on whether the law, which mandates school employees who have sex with a student younger than 19 become a registered sex offender and serve up to 20 years in…