Trisha Powell Crain reports: The family of an Alabama private school student filed a lawsuit against public school officials Tuesday, alleging their child’s right to privacy was violated when officials fraudulently enrolled the child in public school without their knowledge. The family hopes to make the case a class action and has asked the court…
Category: Youth & Schools
Judge orders college to turn over report on 2017 rape
Julie Manganis reports: BEVERLY — A Lawrence Superior Court judge has ordered that a lawyer hired by Endicott College to investigate a 2017 sexual assault on campus must turn over her report and other materials to the attorney representing the victim in that case. In a decision Monday, Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman found that federal student…
Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program – EFF
Matthew Guariglia writes about a program previously noted on this blog as public awareness grows: In September 2020, the Tampa Bay Times revealed a destructive “data-driven” policing program run by the Pasco County, Florida Sheriff’s Office. The program is misleadingly called “Intelligence-Led Policing” (ILP), but in reality, it’s nothing more than targeted child harassment by police. Young people’s school grades…
Resources for Schools and Parents of K-12 Students
Some free resources by Professor Daniel J. Solove: Developing A Privacy Program: A Guide for Schools In this guide, I discuss the issues that school officials need to address in order to effectively protect the privacy of students at their institutions. K-12 Privacy And Security Curriculum With iKeepSafe, I developed a K-12 school curriculum for privacy and…