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…
Category: Youth & Schools
School had no right to read messages on student’s cell phone, family say
Eric Been reports: Owensboro High School violated the Constitution by confiscating a student’s cell phone after it slipped from his pocket during class, and expelling him because of the text messages that school officials read on it, the student’s family claims in Federal Court. The student, identified only as G.C., says his teacher confiscated his…
Medill Case: Are Student Journalists Protected?
Dan Fletcher of Time writes about a case reported here earlier this week: Northwestern University is dealing with a class project that may have become too successful. From 2003 to 2006, students at the university’s Medill School of Journalism investigated the evidence surrounding the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in…
Ex-Yale students settle internet AutoAdmit defamation lawsuit
Edmund H. Mahony reports: Two former Yale University law school students have quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit they brought against about two dozen anonymous authors who the students said defamed and threatened them by posting malicious falsehoods on an Internet message board. The terms under which the suit was resolved are confidential, and lawyers representing…