Amy Stoller writes: Colleges are intensifying their search for new ways to identify struggling students, because 42% of American college students drop out before finishing their degree. Arizona State university professor Matt Pittinsky believes that tracking students’ movements and purchases on campus through their student ID card could show which students are disengaging from college. However, this data-gathering raises major concerns about…
Category: Youth & Schools
WA: School resource officer was acting as a LEO and not school official when he searched backpack in boys bathroom
Searches of students in school has long been a contentious issue, as exceptions to the Fourth Amendment probable cause warrant standard have permitted school personnel to use a lower standard. FourthAmendment.com notes this case in Washington, where a court held that if a school resource officer (SRO) was acting as a police officer, the exception…
Philly suit settled over alleged inappropriate school pat-down
Jessica Parks reports: The Philadelphia School District has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that a male police officer at Harding Middle School inappropriately touched a 13-year-old girl’s chest during a weapons pat-down, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained by The Inquirer. A district spokesman confirmed that the case…
FTC Proposes Additional Revisions to COPPA Rule
Lindsey Tonsager and Shel Abramson write: Earlier this morning, the FTC proposed additional revisions to the rule implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). COPPA governs the online collection, use, and disclosure of children’s personal information by (1) operators of websites and online services that are directed to children under the age of 13 and (2)…