Ty Tagami reports: A student data protection bill got bottled up in a legislative committee Wednesday after a state education official testified that its requirements were onerous. Senate Bill 281 places “draconian restrictions” on schools that “are not acceptable to us,” said Lou Erste, an associate superintendent with the Georgia Department of Education. It started…
Category: Youth & Schools
Editorial: Keep student data private in special-ed lawsuit
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…
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…