Teachers' privacy interest can be determined by court

Article Abstract:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in Milwaukee Teachers' Education Ass'n v. Milwaukee Board of School Directors that the criminal history records of public school teachers and aides were so private that a decision to disclose them could be challenged in court, and that an employee could ask a court to balance the privacy and public interests to determine if the records could be disclosed under the state's open records law.

Wisconsin, Teachers, Government information

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Parking tickets, NCAA letters not exempt as academic records

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The Maryland Supreme Court ruled in Kirwan v. The Diamondback in Dec. 1998 that the University of Maryland cannot use privacy provisions of the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act to keep the student newspaper from obtaining certain student records. These records included parking tickets and letters to the NCAA. The Court ruled that the federal law applied strictly to academic or school-related matters.

Maryland, Laws, regulations and rules, College athletes, Student records

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Privacy claim allowed over 'telepsychic's' open-office conversation

Article Abstract:

The Supreme Court ruled in Sanders v. American Broadcasting Cos. that an employee had an invasion of privacy claim even for recording of a conversation in an open office space if that recording was done by a hidden camera. This revived a telepsychic's privacy claim against ABC for broadcasting a secretly recorded conversation between an ABC reporter and that man.

California

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