Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere? A PogoWasRight.org commentary. The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts into students’ extra-curricular conduct should alarm us all. Whether…
Category: Youth & Schools
GA: Schools attorney drafting revised policy after parent says searching backpacks is unconstitutional
Ryan Calhoun reports: Random school searches are meant to keep your children safe, but one parent tells the Richmond County school board it’s unconstitutional and now they’re taking a new look at the policy. OK, let’s stop right there in amazement. A parent raises a constitutional concern and the school board decides to think about…
California appeals court hears case on student drug tests
Denny Walsh reports: In the first case of its kind in California, three appeals court justices in Sacramento did not appear receptive Monday to mandatory random drug testing of non-athlete high school students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities. A Superior Court judge last year ordered a halt to enforcement of the expanded drug-testing policy…
WA: Oak Harbor schools may be searching kids’ phones
Andy Rathbun reports on the latest assault on student privacy and the Fourth Amendment: School principals may get to look through students’ cellphones if the Oak Harbor School Board signs off on a new policy meant to crack down on cyber-bullying. The board could allow administrators to confiscate and search electronic devices in certain cases….