Kathianne Boniello reports that a parent and her child are suing the New York City Department of Education after the child’s high school dumped hundreds of unshredded confidential student records onto the street last year. The incident was covered on this site here.
The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard boxes full of private records last September as it got ready to move to a new space on West 14th Street [from E. 25th St.].
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The records included psychological evaluations, report cards and other papers with the girl’s Social Security and telephone numbers and address.
The Clicks filed their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit last week, seeking unspecified damages.
Source: NY Post
Now, kids, keeping in mind that the U.S. Dept. of Education never does anything to fine or penalize school districts for such breaches (which violate the federal FERPA statute), and given that districts are not even required to report data breaches to the New York State Dept. of Education, and given that NYS law does not require notification of breaches involving paper records, and given that the bills proposed in Congress generally do not cover paper records:
Congress, can you hear me now?