The following was published on December 6, but just came to my attention thanks to a helpful reader. Denis Drew writes: How can TSA administrative regs — composed with delegated Congressional legislative power – overwrite an explicit Congressional prohibition of naked child imaging: a legislative house divided against itself? Said prohibition passed First Amendment muster…
Category: Youth & Schools
NY: Educator defends drug proposals for Suffolk
Jennifer Maloney reports: The sole educator on the Suffolk Legislature’s heroin advisory panel Friday defended the group’s recommendations for drug-sniffing dogs in schools and drug tests for student athletes, citing his district’s experience with police dogs sniffing lockers for banned substances. […] Smithtown is the first Suffolk district to accept County Executive Steve Levy’s offer to use…
WI: Lawmakers Approve Fingerprint Scanners to Prevent Child Care Fraud
Ann-Elise Henzl reports: In an effort to prevent fraud at day care centers, the state will install fingerprint scanners to track the children who are attending. The state says the system will allow it to monitor attendance, and make sure the state is only reimbursing day care facilities for services actually provided. […] Patrick Marley…
LA: Rapides School Board rejects student fingerprinting
Karina Vailes reports: The Rapides Parish School Board has rejected a policy that could have asked students to be fingerprinted and undergo in-depth physiological tests based on a new state policy. The item on the biometric information, which is commonly used to identify individuals in groups under surveillance, was deleted from the School Board agenda…