Chris Coughlin reports: Parents sued the Springfield Public Schools, saying the repeated “mass lockdowns of public schools,” during which sheriff’s officers search virtually everything – backpacks, lockers, and students’ bodies, if the police dogs “alert” on them – are unconstitutional. When the parents complained, they say the school board said it was their “policy” to…
Category: Youth & Schools
2 Arrested In Alleged Rutgers Sex Spy Scandal
Shocking allegations of spying levied against pair of 18-year-old students exploded on the Rutgers University campus on Tuesday. Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro and Molly W. Wei of Princeton were charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly secretly placing a camera in another student’s dorm room and transmitting a sexual encounter over the Internet. Middlesex County…
Maine: Student SSN Collection for Tracking On Hold After Data Breach
I’ve previously covered the new law in Maine that asks parents to provide their children’s Social Security Numbers so that the state can track the students. A number of school boards had the wisdom to write to the parents and basically say, “Look, we have to ask you for it, but we encourage you to…
‘Exposure’ photo breached teen’s privacy: court told
Police breached the privacy of a 14-year-old boy by publishing his photograph as part of their investigation into street violence in Derry, the High Court heard today. Lawyers for the teenager claimed his image appeared in newspapers and leaflets in a flawed and irrational “naming and shaming” tactic. The family of the boy, who cannot…