News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: No Digging Through Students' Files Without Justification |
| Title: | CN BC: No Digging Through Students' Files Without Justification |
| Published On: | 2004-05-28 |
| Source: | Province, The (CN BC) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-08-22 09:45:42 |
NO DIGGING THROUGH STUDENTS' FILES WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION
Thumbs Down: To the Vancouver School Board's proposal to allow city police
carte blanche access to every high school student's file. The Vancouver
Police Department says having the students' histories on hand would make it
easier for them. An 8 p.m. curfew probably would too, but that's not how
law enforcement works in a free society. Police currently request specific
info on a student on a need-to-know basis. That's how it should be unless
we want to give kids the message that they're second class citizens.
Thumbs Down: To the Vancouver School Board's proposal to allow city police
carte blanche access to every high school student's file. The Vancouver
Police Department says having the students' histories on hand would make it
easier for them. An 8 p.m. curfew probably would too, but that's not how
law enforcement works in a free society. Police currently request specific
info on a student on a need-to-know basis. That's how it should be unless
we want to give kids the message that they're second class citizens.
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