From the seriously-how-fucked-up-are-Kansas-lawmakers? dept. Steve Williams reports: Kansas senators have passed a bill that would essentially reward children for reporting trans kids who use certain restrooms and changing facilities. […] The bills – Senate Bill 513 and House Bill 2737 – collectively known as the “Student Physical Privacy Act,” allege that a “natural” concern over student privacy exists. The act would dictate that students…
Category: Youth & Schools
School District That Said NSA Told It To Monitor Students’ Social Media Posts Is Back With Non-NSA Approved Monitoring
Back in September, 2014, I noted two news items out of Huntsville, Alabama where a district claimed they had been told by the NSA to monitor students’ social media activities. The NSA denied making any such call. Now Tim Cushing says the same district is back in the monitoring news: The same Alabama school district that…
Education Data, Student Privacy Take Spotlight at Capitol Hill Hearing
Andrew Ujifusa provides a really good write-up of a hearing held today in Congress that covered a lot current concerns. Of special note here, consider this part of his coverage: Rachael Stickland, the co-founder and co-chairwoman of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, made a pitch for informing parents up front about the type of…
Plaintiffs Raise Stakes in Campus Gmail Suit
Ross Todd reports: Lawyers at Gallo LLP on Wednesday amended an email-scanning lawsuit they filed earlier this year on behalf of four former UC-Berkeley students against Google Inc. to add more than 700 additional plaintiffs from schools across the country. The flood of new plaintiffs in the suit raises the stakes significantly. Plaintiffs have sued…