Copies of footage from surveillance cameras are not confidential educational records, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Utah chapter says. Canyons School District didn’t agree, but the SPJ hopes the Utah Court of Appeals will. Last week, the Utah Headliners filed an amicus brief with the court, seeking to prevent what it says could be a wrongful expansion of FERPA…
Category: Youth & Schools
New York Legislator Proposes Changes to Address Student Data Privacy and Security
Sen. John Flanagan, chair of New York’s senate education committee, yesterday released a series of administrative and legislative recommendations for the state to take on safeguarding student data privacy and security. The recommendations come from two months of often contentious hearings across New York State to discuss Common Core State Standards implementation, student data security and privacy, and a…
IN: Avon HS students’ phones confiscated amid reports of nude pictures
Drew Smith reports: Avon authorities are investigating after they received reports of several Avon High School students who may have been exchanging nude pictures through cellphones and mobile devices. Some students have been suspended and police said they are working with the school to determine what happened and if any laws were broken. Officials said…
Fordham Law National Study Finds Public School Use of Cloud Computing Services Causes Data Privacy Problems
From their press release: Fordham Law School’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) today released a report on how school districts address privacy when they transfer student information to cloud computing service providers. The report marks the nation’s first in-depth analysis of this increasingly contentious issue. The study found that as public schools in…