Frank LoMonte of the Student Press Law Center had a guest column in the Star-Tribune last month that was recently reproduced in the Waco Tribune, where it caught my eye. For anyone interested in student privacy issues and how schools often misuse federal law to shield what they do not want to disclose, it’s a great…
Category: Youth & Schools
Cumberland County Schools found to have violated FERPA
Monica Vendituoli reports: The U.S. Department of Education found that the Cumberland County Schools violated federal law by refusing to give a man his daughter’s educational records. The parent, Randy Davis, Cumberland County Schools Superintendent Frank Till Jr. and Cumberland County Board of Education lawyer David Phillips received a letter Monday from the Department of…
Special education student who secretly recorded school administrator threatening him to be charged for violating wiretap law
It is an issue that has come up a number of times for me with one of my other “hats” on: do you send a child to school with a wire to record what’s going on in the school if they claim they are being harassed or abused so that you have proof? Maybe you’ve seen…
Wyoming Senate votes to indefinitely postpone student data privacy bill
Matt Murphy reports that the Wyoming Senate voted Tuesday to postpone – indefinitely -Senate File 20, a student data privacy bill. On Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee voted 4-1 to send the bill to the full body, which ended up postponing the law indefinitely. Read more on Wyoming Tribune Eagle. So why has this been…