Mark Thomas of Williams Mullen writes: A federal court recently held that the plaintiff’s claims under state law survived ERISA preemption, and remanded the case to state court to determine the plaintiff’s claims for invasion of privacy and unfair business practices arising from the administrator’s disclosure of her medical records to her employer. While rooted…
Category: Youth & Schools
N.J. high school student ‘humiliated’ after being searched for pills, lawsuit claims
Don E. Woods reports: A lawsuit alleging that a Cumberland County Regional High School special education student was illegally searched in 2011 by security is moving to federal court due to the constitutional questions involved in the case. Her attorney argues that the school violated her right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure…
Are School Districts Equipped to De-Identify Student Data?
Benjamin Herold and Michelle R. Davis report: School districts and the companies that work with them need to put a greater emphasis on ensuring that the massive amounts of student data collected every year are cleared of identifying information before records are shared or released to outside organizations. While many districts and vendors are contemplating…
One-Third Of Schools Are Using This App You’ve Never Heard Of
Anya Kamenetz reports: …. A three-year-old San Francisco-based startup called Clever is catching on in schools by offering a digital-age solution to all these digital-age problems. The company announced this week that its application has been adopted by 44,000 schools across the country, or approximately one-third of the nation’s public and private schools. It’s nearly unique…