From the good-for-them dept. Emily Neinfeldt reports: The University of Wisconsin Police Department has equipped one officer with a body camera on a trial basis and plans to outfit more when a delivery of 10 more cameras arrive. Until then, UWPD is exploring privacy issues through developing a new policy. UWPD is still drafting policy…
Category: Youth & Schools
Children’s Lawyers Seek To Revive Privacy Case Against Google, Viacom
Wendy Davis reports: Representatives for a group of young children are appealing a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Google and Viacom of violating a federal video privacy law. The notice of appeal, which was filed this week with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, doesn’t offer details about the potential arguments the children’s…
IL: Lake Forest schools approve panic-button app
Genevieve Bookwalter reports: Lake Forest teachers soon will have a cell phone app that operates like a panic button, letting them alert police and administrators and track students in case of a school shooting or other emergency. At a school board meeting Monday night, members of the District 67 board of education, which governs Lake…
Conservatives Rally Against Two Fed Education Bills
Shane Vander Hart writes: American Principles in Action warns activists about two bills before Congress this week that they say would further entrench federal control in education. The center-right group based in Washington, DC called on activists to tell Congress to reject H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, which they say would reauthorize many of the oppressive…