Federal and state laws require agencies to scrutinize their confidentiality and record-keeping policies. Suggestions for bringing these policies into accord with the new legal context are presented. These will improve worker-client relationships and service delivery and protect the legal and ethical rights of clients to privacy. (Author/BEF)

Examines the extent that educational institutions can regulate face-to-face solicitation. Legal decisions indicate that: (1) regulation is not aimed at commercial content; (2) legitimate college interests include student privacy and the harm posed by high pressure sales tactics; and (3) alternatives for commerical information dissemination must be…

Discusses provisions of the Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, which establishes rules governing release of information from education records, and the sections of the law absolving the school, in cases of child abuse and neglect, from the parental consent requirement when disclosing school records to appropriate authority. (MF)

Considers the First Amendment implication of broad-based requests for information from accrediting agencies by the federal government. Concludes that much information in such requests is sensitive and clearly deserves First Amendment protection for those students not themselves seeking any governmental assistance. (Author/IRT)

The rights and prohibitions embodied in FERPA are examined, including the scope of the act's coverage in conjunction with a discussion of relevant state law and the proposed rules promulgated by HEW. The four rights granted by the act are considered in detail along with the enforcement procedures. (LBH)

Reviews the sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) held in March 1996. Highlights include the Communications Decency Act, part of the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act; European views; Internet service providers; limiting online speech on campus; cryptography; the global information infrastructure; copyright; and China and the…

Four common difficulties in development and maintenance of a World Wide Web site are those of capturing control of the ever-changing medium and providing product consistency; providing relatively easy and rapid access for users; coping with copyrights when there are so few legal guidelines; and preserving privacy for use of credit cards. Solutions…

Examines preservice teachers' interactions with the Internet in searching for information and in communications. Discusses embodied computing, user "domination and silencing,""brotherhoods" on the Internet, ethical issues, privacy versus the public nature of the Internet, sharing of text and sharing of voice, language of searches, and explorations…

Students clearly have a legal right to access to and privacy of their education records; but not so clear is public access to campus crime reports and AIDS-related records. Computerized records and the use of Social Security numbers as identifiers create other legal concerns. (Author)

Explores the emphasis on parental involvement in education from the perspectives of children and young people. Draws on data from a study about children's perceptions of home-school relations to develop a typology on the ways children and young people talk about parent involvement in their education. Includes references. (CMK)

Chronicles public opinion, politics, and law and policy on privacy and confidentiality and their consequences for access by the social research community to government administrative and statistical records. Discusses the political environment, the decennial census long form, media coverage, and fears about the accumulation of personal information…

Arguing that public education is not structured to encourage or respect students' privacy, this article questions several pedagogical approaches; types of assignments (e.g., autobiographical writing); types of computer-assisted instruction and other applications of technology; reference interviewing techniques; and other practices of librarians…

Reviews the ethical standards of the American School Counselor Association and those of the American Association of Counseling and Development relating to confidentiality and discusses the dilemma for school counselors of applying ethical standards for client confidentiality. Encourages counselor awareness of the legal scope of confidentiality in…

Highlights new legal theories and precedents applicable to employment practices used in the library setting. Illustrative case law and law review commentaries are provided for civil rights, discrimination on the basis of a handicap, wrongful discharge, privacy, age discrimination, equal pay, immigration control, retirement benefits, and…

Courts in New York and Texas have imposed limits on psychiatric research involving involuntarily institutionalized patients as subjects, citing state and constitutional protection of privacy, due process, and equal protection. Some are concerned that mental health research and treatment will suffer. (MSE)