Dan Sewell reports: A federal appeals panel ruled Friday staffers at an Pike County vocational school can be sued by high school nursing students who were strip-searched after a reported theft. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected immunity for the school officials, standing by an earlier conclusion that the…
Category: Youth & Schools
‘Hacker’ posted Jackson children’s YouTube videos
The once sheltered children of the late Michael Jackson have been thrust onto the spotlight after home-made videos of two of his three children playing up for web cameras were leaked and appeared on YouTube. Jackson, who died aged 50 last June of an overdose of powerful medications, went to great lengths to keep Prince…
Lower Merion permanently banned from webcam monitoring (update 2)
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Friday permanently barred the Lower Merion School District from using webcams or other intrusive technology to secretly monitor students through their school-issued laptops. The five-page injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois also requires the suburban district to adopt transparent and expansive policies by September to…
MD 1st to bar schools releasing tests to military
Kathleen Miller of the Associated Press reports: A first-of-its-kind law bars public high schools in Maryland from automatically sending student scores on a widely used military aptitude test to recruiters, a practice that critics say was giving the armed forces backdoor access to young people without their parents’ consent. This is really big in terms…