Kelly Dame reports on case in Michigan: The parents of a Midland Public Schools student have sued the district and two employees in federal court, alleging their right to privacy under the First Amendment has been violated. Michael and Sandra Reardon filed suit against the district, H.H. Dow High counselor Kurt Faust and school employee…
Category: Youth & Schools
New security system to protect Detroit students from sex offenders raises privacy concerns
First the roll-out of yet another “for the children’s safety” measure, as described by ABC News in Detroit: The Detroit Public School system is launching a new security system designed to keep sex offenders out of the city’s schools. The system works by running instant background checks against sex offender registries and then issuing ID…
FL: Two teens arrested for aggravated stalking online
The kind of online impersonation a new California law is intended to address has occurred in Florida, where two teenagers have been arrested. Sarah Pusateri of WINK News reports: Two teenage girls are facing serious charges after they created a fake Facebook page for another student. The page was created in April but deputies didn’t…
Pop4Schools, new Big 4 UK school scam
I’ve blogged a number of times about schools indoctrinating students to accept a surveillance state or to have a reduced expectation of privacy or rights. Over on p2pnet.net, John Newton writes about another kind of possible indoctrination: The Big 4’s latest mind-rape program is called Pop4Schools. Under it, British school children will be “given the chance”…