James Draper reprots: The mother of a Kilgore High School senior is suing the school and several of its employees in federal court, alleging that her daughter’s right to privacy was violated when she was forced to disclose her sexual orientation. The Texas Civil Rights Project, based out of Austin, is handling the suit pro…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Fingerprints for pupils under fire
Emily Heward reports: Schools fingerprinting pupils have come under fire as the EU demands they justify the controversial practice. A handful of Calderdale schools, including Todmorden High and Brighouse High, use the biometric technology, where scans of children’s thumbs are stored and linked to a canteen or library accounts. But the European Commission has hit…
Congress already voted against TSA naked child scanning — ditto for state laws against opposite sex groping and scanning
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…
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…