A California Court of Appeal ruled that a school pupil had committed identity theft under Californian laws when he obtained a schoolmate’s email password, used it to gain access to her Facebook account, and posted sexually suggestive messages whilst posing as the girl. Wilfully obtaining personal identifying information and using it “for an unlawful purpose”…
Category: Youth & Schools
Can school personnel search your child’s bra without individualized suspicion?
Can your teenage daughter’s school personnel lift or search her bra if the whole school is going through a search for drugs? Not if there’s no individualized reasonable suspicion of her, according to a North Carolina decision. Via FourthAmendment.com, from In re T.A.S., 2011 N.C. App. LEXIS 1472 (July 19, 2011): Where the blanket search of the…
Are Student Cell Phone Records Discoverable?
Joshua A. Engel reports: The debate over when officials can search a student’s cell phone is an emerging e-discovery issue. This is illustrated in the recent case N.N. v. Tunkhannock Area School District, Civil Action No. 3:10-CV-1080, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. In this case, a student at Tunkhannock Area High School…
Justice Dept. and Colleges Back Illinois FERPA Appeal
From Inside HigherEd: The U.S. Justice Department and nine college associations have filed briefs backing the University of Illinois in its attempt to overturn a judge’s ruling that documents requested by The Chicago Tribune are not covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Tribune requested the documents — which deal with applicants’ grades, test scores and parents…