Last night I read the complaint in the ACLU’s lawsuit against Minnwaska Area Schools. It left me absolutely livid that a public school district – once again – decided that it could discipline students in school for non-threatening off-campus speech. But the district’s egregious conduct did not stop there, it seems. District personnel allegedly also…
Category: Youth & Schools
Is it all over but the conviction: Rutgers student admitted to invading Clementi’s privacy??
I don’t know that the prosecution has made its case for a hate crime, but as far as the privacy invasion charges go in the case of a Rutgers student, the student may have been the prosecution’s best witness. Gene Racz reports: After defense attorney Steven Altman showed the jury a tweet by Dharun Ravi…
ACLU-MN files lawsuit against Minnewaska Area Schools
If the allegations in this complaint are true, this is a truly egregious over-reach by a school district that simultaneously invaded a student’s privacy and punished her for protected speech. Here’s the press release from the ACLU of Minnesota: St. Paul, Minn. – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit in…
State agencies, colleges demand applicants’ Facebook passwords
Bob Sullivan reports: If you think privacy settings on your Facebook and Twitter accounts guarantee future employers or schools can’t see your private posts, guess again. Employers and colleges find the treasure-trove of personal information hiding behind password-protected accounts and privacy walls just too tempting, and increasingly, they are demanding full access from applicants and…