Oct 19/Web - Privacy of Children's Educational Records

Following the No Child Left Behind mandate to improve school quality, there has been a growing trend among state departments of education to establish statewide longitudinal databases of personally identifiable information for all K-12 children within a state in order to track progress and change over time. This trend is accompanied by a movement to create uniform data collection systems so that each state's student data systems are interoperable with one another. This panel discussion will examine the privacy concerns implicated by these trends. 

Panelists will report on the results of a Fordham survey of all fifty states and finds that state educational databases across the country ignore key privacy protections for the nation's K-12 children. The Study finds that large amounts of personally identifiable data and sensitive personal information about children are stored by the state departments of education in electronic warehouses or for the states by third party vendors. These data warehouses typically lack adequate privacy protections, such as clear access and use restrictions and data retention policies, are often not compliant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and leave K-12 children unprotected from data misuse, improper data release, and data breaches. The Study provides recommendations for best practices and legislative reform to address these privacy problems.


Privacy of Children's Educational Records 
October 19th, 2010, 1:00 PM EDT

Event Description:

NOTE: CLE credit will be available to only those who attend the webinar on October 19th, 2010, in the following states: California, Illinois, New York and Washington.Speakers: 

Joel R. Reidenberg  Stanley D. Waxberg and Nikki Waxberg Chair and Professor of Law Director, Center on Law and Information Policy Fordham University School of Law Reidenberg's published books and articles explore both information privacy and information technology law and policy. He has served as an expert adviser to the U.S. Congress, the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission on data privacy matters and has chaired the Section on Defamation and Privacy of the Association of American Law Schools (the academic society for American law professors) and is a former chair of the association's Section on Law and Computers. Reidenberg received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Columbia University, and both a D.E.A. droit international économique and a Ph.D in law from the Université de Paris -Sorbonne. He is admitted to the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia.

Jamela Debelak, Esq. Executive Director, Center on Law and Information Policy Fordham University School of Law Jamela Debelak is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member, teaching courses on Internet Law and the Law of Internet Speech. Prior to joining CLIP, Debelak was an associate in the IP Transactional Group at Dechert LLP. At Dechert, she worked with technology, media, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing companies in licensing, development, and acquisition matters involving intellectual property. She also previously worked as a law clerk at Rykodisc, Inc., which was, at the time, a stand-alone recording, publishing, and distribution company. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University and is a magna cum laude J.D. graduate of Temple Law School.

David Stolier Senior Assistant Attorney General Washington State Office of Attorney General Dave Stolier is Chief of the Education Division of the Attorney General's Office where he supervises the work of 20 attorneys advising educational institutions statewide. The Division serves the 4 regional universities, 34 community and technical colleges, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, Department of Early Learning and a number of other education-related boards and commissions in Olympia. Dave has handled appellate cases in the Washington Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit related to education funding and advised on education-related issues for both K-12 and higher education clients since 1994. Dave received a B.A. in Communications from UCLA in 1979 and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1994.

Moderator:

Kenneth A. Gary, JD Associate Publisher, The National Law Journal A lawyer and journalist by training, Mr. Gary has worked extensively inside the legal community in a variety of capacities, including consulting legal research companies, marketing, advising and operating legal trade publications, and investigative and compliance work for several regulatory organizations and a Fortune 200 financial services company. Mr. Gary has received national recognition for his editorial and analytical contributions for several leading tax and corporate governance legal news publications and has had his works sourced by newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Mr. Gary received his Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Colorado, and his Juris Doctorate degree from the American University Washington College of Law, where he served as Editor-In-Chief of American Jurist.  MORE: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=242289&sessionid=1&key=5C878CBE9E260FB890C354B74DCB295C&sourcepage=register

 

Randy Winn
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