The student newspaper at University of Georgia , Red & Black, has an item written by Mimi Ensley that caught my eye. It deals with an open records request on sexual harassment investigations filed by a woman who was dutifully sent all of the records. But they were not redacted at all. And according to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Nova Scotia CA Favors Transparency Over Youth Privacy in Facebook Defamation Case
Dan Michaluk writes: The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has just issued a decision in which it affirmed a decision to deny a potential defamation claimant the use of a pseudonym (initials) in pursuing a defamation claim.The appeal was brought by a 15-year-old girl who has taken issue with an individual who created a fake…
Student: Principal forced deletion of Facebook posts
Ty Tagami reports on yet another over-reaction by school personnel to young students’ misbehavior online and yet another example of schools invading student privacy. This case is from Georgia: A 13-year-old girl who called her teacher a pedophile online says her principal ordered her to log onto Facebook so she could read the offending post…
Univ. of Tennessee’s use of federal privacy rules are Catch-22
Jack McElroy reports: The University of Tennessee released another version of the Notice of Allegations the NCAA issued against the Vol athletic department. The new version no longer omits entire sections of the report. Instead, it blacks out all the information in those sections.The university is basing the redactions on the Family Educational Rights and…