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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Texas school sued over cellphone search
It’s deja vu all over again. Cameron Langford of Courthouse News reports on yet another lawsuit involving the search and seizure of a student’s cellphone: A school district violated an eighth-grade girl’s civil rights and its own policies when it seized a cell phone from her, searched it, and punished her after finding “inappropriate” pictures…
Teen Hangs Herself After Harassment For a ‘Sexting’ Message, Parents Say
Melissa Thomas reports: A high school student killed herself after she emailed a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend and he sent it around to others at two high schools, the girl’s parents claim in Federal Court. They sued the city, the school district, the ex-boyfriend and several other kids to whom he allegedly…