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Title: Security key for schools, but rules shouldn't waive privacy {Opinion}
Post by: LostInTime on June 20, 2007, 02:24:28 PM
Post by: LostInTime on June 20, 2007, 02:24:28 PM
Star Bulletin (http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/20/editorial/editorial01.html)
ehavioral issues, like sexual encounters, hazing, harassment and the new-tech offense of cyberbullying, are dealt with in the new rules. For the first time, harassment includes gender identity and expression as a factor, a point that could be controversial.
One measure sure to draw privacy concerns would allow school officials to search students' lockers at any time "with or without reason or cause."
ehavioral issues, like sexual encounters, hazing, harassment and the new-tech offense of cyberbullying, are dealt with in the new rules. For the first time, harassment includes gender identity and expression as a factor, a point that could be controversial.
One measure sure to draw privacy concerns would allow school officials to search students' lockers at any time "with or without reason or cause."