Katie McVicker reports: Despite the apparent outrage of some parents and community members posted on media websites, few people actually showed up at the meeting to voice concerns. However, officials from the American Civil Liberties Union made it clear that they think the policy goes too far and the issue has attracted widespread media attention….
Category: Youth & Schools
Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now – and potentially much more later – to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district’s webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to…
WA: ACLU opposes student cell phone search
Andy Rathbun reports: A cell phone is not a backpack. That’s the message the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is relaying to the Oak Harbor School District as its school board considers a controversial policy on cellphone searches. The proposed policy would allow students’ cell phones to be searched by school administrators when they…
Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California
Rebecca Jeschke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) writes about an issue that I also blogged about recently: tracking students. Not surprisingly, we share similar concerns: Scary news from California’s Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding….