Keeping tabs on what children and teenagers are doing and saying is hard enough for parents — let alone school teachers and administrators. But when it comes to maintaining a safe learning environment, school officials say they try to balance the privacy of individual students with the safety of all. Currently, students at Alpine School…
Category: Youth & Schools
Federal education officials instruct schools to violate student privacy and trample free speech
Well, okay, maybe that’s not exactly what the headline on The Daily Caller actually says, and I’m quite sure it’s not how the feds would describe their actions, but their attempts to deal with cyberbullying and harassment may ride roughshod over student privacy and speech while imposing more liability on schools. Neil Munro of The…
Legislation Introduced to Combat Harassment and Cyberbullying on College Campuses
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenburg (D-NJ) and Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ-12) have reintroduced legislation which would require colleges and universities to have anti-harrasment policies. The legislation is designed to stop cyberbullying and harassment on college and university campuses and also provides funding for schools to “establish or expand programs that help to prevent student harassment,” according…
School employees violated student’s constitutional right to privacy by releasing poorly-redacted psychiatric evaluation to class of 11-graders
L.S. v. Mount Olive Bd. of Educ., No. 09-3052 (D.N.J. Feb. 25, 2011) 2011wl677490 Abstract: A federal district court in New Jersey has decided that a social worker and special education instructor employed by the school board are liable for violating a high school student’s federal and state constitutional right to privacy. After dismissing claims…