A federal appeals court is weighing whether the University of Illinois should be forced to release information about applicants who got preferential treatment through a now-defunct secret admissions system. The dispute, pending before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, stems from the Tribune’s 2009 “Clout Goes to College” series, which exposed the separate admissions…
Category: Youth & Schools
Police sweep Colchester high school for drugs
Ryan Blessing reports: Police cited four Bacon Academy students for drug-related infractions Thursday after the Colchester high school was locked down and searched for two hours by state police drug-sniffing dogs. Contraband was found in lockers in the school and in vehicles in the student parking lot, Superintendent of Schools Karen A. Loiselle Goodwin said….
Trial gets under way for Rutgers student accused of bullying
Jim Kyle reports: A former Rutgers University student went on trial Friday in New Jersey on hate crimes charges and other counts for allegedly using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s sexual encounter with another man. The roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge just days after Dharun Ravi…
FTC Report Raises Privacy Questions About Mobile Applications for Children
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission today issued astaff report showing the results of a survey of mobile apps for children. The survey shows that neither the app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or who…