At what point will we say, “Enough, already!” ? Joe Cadillic writes: Schools and police are using V-STAG to assess a students threat level: “The Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines (V-STAG) is a school-based manualized process designed to help school administrators, mental health staff, and law enforcement officers assess and respond to threat incidents involving students in kindergarten through…
Category: Youth & Schools
FERPA, Video Surveillance, and Law Enforcement Units
Bill Fitzgerald writes: In this post, we will take a look at what is potentially a large loophole in FERPA that has some obvious implications for school to prison pipeline issues. However, I need to open with an enormous caveat. First, the FERPA brochure referenced in this post is from 2007. It is possible that these…
The DOJ is investing millions of dollars in research to spy on students at public schools nationwide
sosadmin writes: The Department of Justice’s National Institute for Justice funds law enforcement research to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year. […] One of those projects is a City of Chicago Board of Education program called “Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR),” which aims “to use social media monitoring to identify and connect…
Senators offer rival bill, Safe Kids Act, on student data privacy
Cory Bennett reports: The Senate now has competing bills aimed at restricting education companies from selling or using student data for targeted ads. Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Thursday introduced the Safe Kids Act. The measure would also require private companies to meet certain data security standards when handling student information….