Case: Harold Burbank et al. v. Canton Board of Education Court: Connecticut Supreme Court Date: Oct. 27 Time: 11 a.m Summary: Parents are challenging the constitutionality of searches conducted at Canton high school and middle school during which drug sniffing dogs were used to try to locate any possible drugs in lockers or parked cars….
Category: Youth & Schools
Fact or Fiction: Child Identity Theft
From the ITRC: Fiction 1: Child identity theft is a new crime. Fact: This egregious crime has been happening for decades. Even before the IRS required that children be assigned a Social Security Number (SSN) for tax tracking purposes, people have stolen the identity of children to create a “new life” for themselves. It is…
School district loses out on a teachable moment on privacy
This is a story that will likely never make national headlines, but it is an instructive incident on student privacy and why parents cannot rely on schools to respect or teach the children about privacy. Elizabeth Doran reports from New York: Two Fayetteville-Manlius parents called on the school board Monday night to notifiy parents whose…
School Safety Officers Too Quick To Discipline, NYCLU Says
Surveillance of students and deprivation of the civil liberties that they should enjoy has been a recurring theme on this blog as the Youth and Surveillance categories reflect. In August, I tried to summarize some of my concerns in a post, “U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state,” but there have been other…