Skip to main content

Home/ CC2_P1/ Group items tagged students

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Jay Bohnsack

Students' text messages used in north suburban drug probe - Chicago Tribune - 15 views

  • theU.S. Supreme Courthas decided that school officials need only "reasonable suspicion" to search students' belongings, a lower standard than the "probable cause" that applies to police.
  • That's perfectly within our rights within the school," he said. "If schools have credible evidence that cellphones are being used in some kind of trafficking … we have every right to take the phones.
Jay Bohnsack

Red Tape - Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords - 17 views

  • job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.
  • schools are requiring them to "friend" a coach or compliance officer,
  • For student athletes, though, the access isn't voluntary. No access, no sports.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • it had reviewed 2,689 applicants via social media, and denied employment to seven because of items found on their pages
  • the rush to social media monitoring raises an often overlooked legal concern: It's against Facebook's Terms of Service
  • You will not share your password ... let anyone else access your account or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account
  • And the state of Illinois has followed Maryland's lead and is considering similar legislation to ban social media password demands by employers
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20 items per page