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Search results for "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)" ...
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Secrecy 101
"Universities hide information about their athletics departments behind a student-privacy law designed to keep grades private." Further, it hides athletes, who have done a number of unethical and some illegal activities. Also, coaches are using the law to hide their own bad behavior. All this information stunned the senator who created the law and he believes the "institutions are putting their own meaning into the law."
Tags: education; college; Senator James L. Buckley; NCAA; Ohio State; FOIA; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); federal; sports; public records; censor; academics
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Security Breach
This investigation discovered the Palo alto Unified School District, in California, had a hole in its wireless computer network that allowed outsiders with wireless capabilities access to many private student records including a psychological profile of a student, students' grades, home addresses and custody information, and full-color photos of some elementary school students with their listed medical conditions. Many of these files could be copied and unauthorized users could upload their own files onto one of the district's servers.
Tags: Palo Alto Unified School District; wireless network; wireless capabilities; school computer networks; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; FERPA; medical information; security; passwords