A former physical trainer at St. John’s Hospital was convicted a of sexually exploiting children by secretly videotaping minor females at the hospital’s training facility. Scott Johnson, 30, of Springfield, Mo., was found guilty of eight counts of the sexual exploitation of a child. Johnson was taken into federal custody to await sentencing. Johnson was…
Category: Youth & Schools
School Can’t Record Audio in Special-Ed Classrooms
Jeff Gorman reports: An Illinois appeals court shot down a school district’s plan to place audio-recording equipment in special-education classrooms, saying it would violate a state eavesdropping law. Denise Plock and three other parents sued Freeport School District No. 145 to stop its plan to install the audio recorders. The district decided to install audio-recording…
NYC Family Court judge denies Child Protective Services permission to enter hotline subject’s home
Daniel Weaver reports: In a decision posted yesterday, Kings County Family Court Judge, Jeanette Ruiz, refused to grant the Administration for Children’s services permission to enter the home of J. Smith. Children’s Services had applied for a pre-petition ex-parte court order as part of an ongoing investigation which began when someone anonymously called the State…
Student fights to change university privacy policies
This is another one of those “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” situations. Under the federal education privacy law known as FERPA, colleges may publish certain “directory” information on students without their consent. But they don’t have to, and this privacy blogger would strongly encourage colleges to adopt an opt-in strategy when it…