Video footage of primary pupils changing for PE [physical education] lessons has been seized by police after a protest by furious parents. Police were called to diffuse the row at the gates after mums and dads found pupils were filmed round the clock. There was no suggestion it was used inappropriately but police seized the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Student Blogger Case Shows That Online Anonymity Isn’t Guaranteed
Butler University has dropped its libel lawsuit against a student that criticized university administration in an anonymous blog, but not before it was able to obtain the identity of the student. It will continue to pursue its own disciplinary proceedings against the student, junior Jess Zimmerman. Dan Altman, Zimmerman’s lawyer, said that the university filed…
Students Fight Punishment for MySpace Pics
Tim Hull reports: Two high school students filed a constitutional class action against their school district and the principal who banned them from extracurricular activities after seeing MySpace pictures of the girls kissing and licking a phallus-shaped lollipop and wearing lingerie decorated with dollar bills. The federal lawsuit seeks to reverse the sports ban and…
Fordham Law Study: Privacy of Nation’s School Children at Risk
Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Privacy released a study that found state educational databases across the country ignore key privacy protections for the nation’s K – 12 children. The findings come as Congress is considering legislation that would expand and integrate the 43 existing state databases without taking into account the critical privacy…