An editorial in the Los Angeles Times today addresses a situation and court ruling I have previously described as “so bad on so many levels:” What was U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller thinking when she ordered the state to release demographic and personal information about all public school students, including their names, Social Security numbers (if…
Category: Youth & Schools
Utah House approves bill limiting public access to school district records
Benjamin Wood reports: Members of the Utah House approved a bill on Tuesday that would exclude some school district records from the state’s open records law. Sponsored by West Valley City Republican Rep. Craig Hall, the bill clarifies that records governed by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, are exempt from…
Teen confidentiality should not be breached in billing, claims processes: policy
Alyson Sulaski writes: Billing and insurance claims processes need to ensure the confidentiality of adolescents and young adults covered on their family’s health insurance plan. That is the emphasis of a new policy statement, available at https://www.adolescenthealth.org/SAHM_Main/media/Advocacy/Positions/Confidentiality-Position-Statement.pdf, from the Academy and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. When adolescents seek care for a sensitive…
CA: Assembly bill to address student privacy issues
Charity Lindsey reports that the response to a court ruling ordering the state to turn over information on 10 million students to a non-profit organization has been swift: some legislators have proposed a new law limiting the information districts can collect and requiring them to notify parents how to opt out of compliance with the…