ALL California Student's Personal Information to be Shared with Non Profit

I come to you as a public educator with this information. I am not trying to push an agenda.. I care about my students and my past students whose personal and private information is going to be shared with this CPA non profit. I don't care what the non profit does with he information block, but giving it to them is not safe. Please read the story below and decide on your stance if you are a parent of a public school student from 2008 until now or if you were a student anytime between 2008 and now.

As this gets big, the court clerk will not be able to handle the number of hand written opt-outs and I don't think the opt out system will ever work.

http://www.idtheftcenter.org/alertcaparents.html

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...rmation-Released-to-Non-Profit-368556881.html

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Millions of public school students will soon have their personal information and school records handed over to a nonprofit community organization.

The Concerned Parents Association fought for the data in federal district court and won over the objections of the California Department of Education.

The nonprofit said it needs the information to see if California schools are violating the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and other related laws. The database it will have access to includes all information on children, kindergarten through high school, who are attending or have attended a California school at any time since Jan. 1, 2008.

The database contain students' names, social security numbers, home addresses, course information, behavior and discipline information, progress reports, mental health and medical information, along with suspensions, expulsions and more.

That doesn't sit well with privacy groups. Beth Givens with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse said it's "shocking that the court would release this sort of information."

Eva Velasquez with the Identity Theft Resource Center agreed.

"A lot of that information could be used to commit identity theft if it gets into the wrong hands," she said.

The attorney for the Concerned Parents Association, Rony Sagy, told NBC 7 the information will only be accessible to a handful of people and will have a "Special Master" who will certify that security measures are followed.

"The issue isn't why they want it," said Velasquez. "The issue is that it creates vulnerabilities and access points."

Students and parents can opt-out of the list by following detailed instructions from the district court. However there appears to be very little being done on the state or local level to inform parents of the disclosure.

To find out more about the court case and how to opt-out, visit the ID Theft Center's website at this URL: http://www.idtheftcenter.org/alertcaparents.html. The form, which you can find here, must be submitted by April 1.

Published at 6:28 PM PST on Feb 11, 2016

Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...ed-to-Non-Profit-368556881.html#ixzz40IV2wYJZ
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Holyshit!!!! You have to be kidding me this is insane...

 

California, 'nuff said.

 

I have been in Cali for 5 days now and I can't wait to leave I have almost beat the shit out of 2 people!

 

Californian Education officials attempted to block it unless I'm reading it wrong

"The Concerned Parents Association fought for the data in federal district court and won over the objections of the California Department of Education."

 

Seems to be able for parents to opt out. No?

 

Correct, missed that line when I skimmed the article

 

Guess they had better attorney's still insane that this is even happening!!

 

The CDE fought against it but the CPA won in Federal Court, outside of California

I have contacted my administrators about this and hope we can somehow contact the parents in our district about this

There is an opt out procedure but it's done by mail to the court clerk so I doubt you will be able to opt out once this hit bigger news and several hundred thousand parents try to opt out