Over on Volokh.com, Stewart Baker uses Danah Boyd’s new study on under-age kids signing up for Facebook with their parents collaboration to lambast COPAA. He writes, in part: Teaching kids to lie isn’t exactly a government policy to be proud of. But federal law has another unintended legal consequence in store for those parents and…
Category: Youth & Schools
ACLU’s ‘Kick A Jew Day’ lawsuit dismissed, but raises important questions about FERPA
Aisling Swift reports: A two-year battle for Collier County school records detailing a “Kick a Jew Day” incident at North Naples Middle School in 2009 came to an end this week, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. On Tuesday, Collier Circuit Judge Hugh Hayes dismissed a lawsuit filed in April by…
IN: Purdue required to release name of student to Third Degree Films in “Illegal Ass 2” copyright infringement lawsuit
WLFI in Indiana reports that a federal judge has ordered Purdue University to disclose the name and information of a student accused of illegally downloading a pornographic video: The student, named in court documents as Doe 26, had filed a motion to quash a subpoena on Purdue University filed by Third Degree Films to push…
WA: Federal student privacy law blamed for school’s failure to prevent attack?
@EducationNY pointed me to this news story by Christine Clarridge: Five months before she allegedly attacked two schoolmates with a knife, nearly killing one, a Snohomish High School student underwent counseling after she threatened to kill another student’s boyfriend. The 15-year-old Snohomish girl was allowed to return to school only after she presented proof she…