Julie Baker-Dennis reports the latest development in a lawsuit previously noted on this site: The 11th Circuit revived three students’ claims that employees of Florida’s Valencia College violated their right to free speech and protection against unreasonable searches by pressuring them to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. The three former sonography students who attended the public college sued…
Category: Youth & Schools
AG Paxton Settles Suit with App Company, Juxta Labs, for Collecting Children’s Information
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a settlement with California app developer Juxta Labs, Inc. for violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act. Juxta Labs signed an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC), approved by the Travis Country District Court, agreeing not to collect personal information from any child under the age of 13. The AVC…
Chicago parents upset that charter schools got contact info
Sarah Schulte reports: Hundreds of Chicago Public School parents want to know who gave away their contact information. They said the looming threat of a teacher strike has a charter school network soliciting them to switch schools. A mailer the size of a post card with a glossy cover was mailed out from the Noble…
North Jersey school installs fingerprint readers
Administrators at a North Jersey school have calmed privacy concerns after a school in Englewood started using biometric readers to authenticate meal payments. The school installed the reader after abuse of a card system, with pupils that were permitted free meals swiping in for their friends. Parents have said at a local meeting that there hasn’t…