Dear Legislator,
Several student privacy bills will come across your desk this legislative session. As a constituent, taxpayer, and parent, I urge you to support these bills that will protect our childrens’ futures.
I was recently made aware that the Family Educational Protection and Privacy Act (FERPA) was amended in 2011 and no longer protects my children’s privacy, as it had for the past thirty seven years when FERPA was created in 1974. My consent is no longer needed for my child’s educational records to be released to the state, federal government, and authorized representatives of the state or third party vendors in the support of CT’s creation and expansion of the State Wide Longitudinal Database or P20-Win. In addition, the breadth of the P20-Win database further concerns me. I do not want biometric records, affective computing data, juvenile records, criminal records, medical and health records, political affiliations of my child and our family, home ip address, my social security number, health screenings, and psychological records to be part of my child’s shared data. Please help us to stop this in CT!
As a parent, I have never been notified of these changes in FERPA and I wonder how many legislators are aware that these monumental changes were made that have served to erode parental control of their children’s records. I am very interested in bills that will require mandatory Privacy Impact Notices to Parents. I would like to know every year what kind of information or data about my child is leaving my district. Don’t you think I have a right to know?
Lastly, I would like to see an independent group or body put in place to make decisions about how CT shares any and all data with any entity outside of my district. I would also like enforceable policies and penalties put in place for data breaches at any level. I should have the right to file a complaint or appeal any action that releases my child’s data, especially if it results in discrimination, labeling or any adverse consequences to my child.
I have great faith in CT’s Education Committee and the General Assembly that they will act in the best interests of our state’s children. Please do all you can to champion these issues and vote “Yes” to any bills that protect our children’s privacy. Twenty other states have passed student privacy bills. It’s time for us to do the same.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Doe
John Doe
Several student privacy bills will come across your desk this legislative session. As a constituent, taxpayer, and parent, I urge you to support these bills that will protect our childrens’ futures.
I was recently made aware that the Family Educational Protection and Privacy Act (FERPA) was amended in 2011 and no longer protects my children’s privacy, as it had for the past thirty seven years when FERPA was created in 1974. My consent is no longer needed for my child’s educational records to be released to the state, federal government, and authorized representatives of the state or third party vendors in the support of CT’s creation and expansion of the State Wide Longitudinal Database or P20-Win. In addition, the breadth of the P20-Win database further concerns me. I do not want biometric records, affective computing data, juvenile records, criminal records, medical and health records, political affiliations of my child and our family, home ip address, my social security number, health screenings, and psychological records to be part of my child’s shared data. Please help us to stop this in CT!
As a parent, I have never been notified of these changes in FERPA and I wonder how many legislators are aware that these monumental changes were made that have served to erode parental control of their children’s records. I am very interested in bills that will require mandatory Privacy Impact Notices to Parents. I would like to know every year what kind of information or data about my child is leaving my district. Don’t you think I have a right to know?
Lastly, I would like to see an independent group or body put in place to make decisions about how CT shares any and all data with any entity outside of my district. I would also like enforceable policies and penalties put in place for data breaches at any level. I should have the right to file a complaint or appeal any action that releases my child’s data, especially if it results in discrimination, labeling or any adverse consequences to my child.
I have great faith in CT’s Education Committee and the General Assembly that they will act in the best interests of our state’s children. Please do all you can to champion these issues and vote “Yes” to any bills that protect our children’s privacy. Twenty other states have passed student privacy bills. It’s time for us to do the same.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Doe
John Doe