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Police Release Protect Alleged Sex Tape Criminal's Identity, Release Victim's Name

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.28.2013 | College
Read More: Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State Sex Tape, Osu Campus Police, Osu Football Player Sex Tape, Sex Tape Osu, Oklahoma State University Police, Student Privacy, Campus Police, Daily O'collegian, Osu, Clery Act, Oklahoma State University Football Player Sex Tape, Ferpa, College News

Oklahoma State University police released the name and personal information of a woman who reported she was the victim of a secret sex tape, while red...

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Tyler Kingkade

UNC Faces Discrimination Complaint From Sexual Assault Survivors

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.26.2013 | College
Read More: Equal Opportunity Mandates, Annie Clark Unc, Americans With Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act, Title IX, University of North Carolina, Landen Gambill, Unc, Sexual Assault, Andrea Pino, Video, Melinda Manning, Unc Sexual Assault, Unc Sexual Assault Survivors, Unc Ocr Complaint, UNC Chapel Hill, Clery Act, Ferpa, College News

On March 10, 2012, Andrea Pino says she was raped at an off-campus party. She wasn't drunk and was only there to look after a friend, but because she ...

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Ohio State Makes Announcement On Steubenville Rape Video Student

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.07.2013 | College
Read More: Steubenville Rape, Steubenville, Anonymous Steubenville, Steubenville Michael Nodianos, Michael Nodianos, Michael Nodianos Rape Video, Bad News, Anonymous Releases Video Steubenville Rape Case, Ferpa, College News

Michael Nodianos, the teenager seen joking about a 16-year-old's rape in a widely circulated video, is no longer a student at The Ohio State Universit...

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Congress Passes Key Foster Care Education Bill

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 03.04.2013 | Impact
Read More: Ferpa, Education Foster Kids, Uninterrupted Scholars Act, Foster Youth Education, Foster Youth, Senate Foster Youth Caucus, Impact News
Daniel Heimpel

If signed by the president, Uninterrupted Scholars will amend the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow child welfare agencies access to foster student records.

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Emails Show Why OSU Officials Tried To Hide Alleged Sexual Assaults

AP | SEAN MURPHY | Posted 12.30.2012 | College
Read More: Nathan Cochran Sexual Assault, Oklahoma State Nathan Cochran, Osu Stillwater Police, Oklahoma State University, Campus Crime, Stillwater Police, Oklahoma State Officials, Osu Nathan Cochran, Nathan Cochran, Farmhouse Fraternity, Osu, Oklahoma State Sexual Assaults, Clery Act, Oklahoma State Assaults, Ferpa, College News

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma State University officials fretted about the school's public image as details emerged about the sexual assaults of several m...

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Educational Institutions and Cloud Computing: A Roadmap of Responsibilities

Daniel J. Solove | Posted 01.18.2013 | Technology
Read More: Ferpa, Privacy, Cloud Computing, Technology News
Daniel J. Solove

Increasingly, educational institutions and state entities handling student data are hiring outside companies to perform cloud computing functions related to managing personal information.

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Zimmerman's Attorneys Want Trayvon Martin's School Records

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 12.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Murder, Shooting, Police, School Records, Discipline, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Ferpa, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Suspension, Home News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee Attorneys for George Zimmerman, the man charged with the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Feburary of this year, a...

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The Power of Foster Care Politics

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 08.08.2012 | Politics
Read More: Alcee Hastings, Child Welfare, Fostering Media Connections, Senator Mary Landrieu, Roy Blunt, Education, Al Franken, Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, The Chronicle of Social Change, Mitt Romney, Tom Marino, Daniel Heimpel, Karen Bass, Amy Klobuchar, Barack Obama, Adoption, Frederica Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Michele Bachmann, Mark Begich, Orphan, Child Power, Chuck Grassley, Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, Colbert Report, Ferpa, Foster Care, John Stewart, Politics News
Daniel Heimpel

While the nation bemoans a "gridlocked" Congress and Comedy Central's Messrs. Stewart and Colbert aptly ridicule both presidential candidates for a disregard of specificity on one hand and hubris on the other, I have borne witness to a very different vision of our elected leadership.

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Help Me Help You: An Open Letter to Parents/Family Members

Ken Schneck, PhD | Posted 09.30.2012 | College
Read More: College Students, University, Parent Orientation, Parents of Students, Teen College BTS, College, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Ferpa, Parents College Communication, College News
Ken Schneck, PhD

You and I need to work on our phone conversations. If I may, here are some suggestions on the opening lines with which you habitually call me and how we can tweak them.

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The Social Network That Ate Orientation...Thanks, Facebook!

Ken Schneck, PhD | Posted 09.22.2012 | College
Read More: University, Freshman Orientation, College, Facebook Privacy, Facebook Status, College Orientation, Facebook, Ferpa, College News
Ken Schneck, PhD

The fatal flaw in my Facebook rebellion was found where it is always can be found: the students. Turns out, my aversion to using Facebook professionally didn't stop students from going there. In droves.

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Student Privacy in Peril: Massive Data Gathering With Inadequate Privacy and Security

Daniel J. Solove | Posted 12.19.2011 | Home
Read More: Department of Education, Education, Data Security, Ferpa, Privacy, Social Security Numbers, Privacy Rights, Student Privacy, Home News
Daniel J. Solove

One thing is for certain: the Department of Education's mishandling of personal student financial data in this latest data breach proves that we should be wary of how the Department will utilize this type of data in the future.

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LCCC's Misuse of FERPA Unprecedented

Adam Goldstein | Posted 08.16.2012 | College
Read More: The Cheyenne Herald, Laramie County Community College, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Ferpa, Censorship, Wyoming Schools, College News
Adam Goldstein

The prior restraint a Wyoming judge placed on two newspapers was lifted today, which is great; but the institution that abused student privacy law to ...

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Wyoming Judge Blocks News Stories On College Trip

AP | BEN NEARY | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Darrel Hammon Trip, Darrel Hammon Costa Rica, Darrel Hammon, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Dave Featherly, Laramie County Community College, The West, Ferpa, The Cheyenne Herald, Hammon, Costa Rica, Wyoming Judge Blocks News Stories on College Trip, College News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In a rare move, a Wyoming judge has blocked two newspapers from publishing stories on an internal report about a college presid...

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Campus Disciplinary Process the Wrong Place to Punish Violent Crime

Adam Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Clery Act, Ferpa, Sexual Assault, Campus Discipline, College News
Adam Goldstein

I don't know where you go to college, but I'm going to guess the college has an internal disciplinary process that is designed to punish things like p...

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So, Your Child Is Going Off to College... Drinking, Drugs, Depression and Dealing With Colleges and Universities

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: College Students, Stds, Hipaa, Resident Hall Advisors, Drug Problems Youth, Health Services, College and Parents, Ras, Parenting, Virginia Tech, University, College, Studnent Mental Health, Sexual Exploration, Dormitory, Adhd, Ferpa, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Mental illnesses, including alcohol and drug abuse, are the conditions that arise and may affect your child as he takes on the developmental steps of leaving home to go off to school.

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