{"id":8205,"date":"2013-11-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:37:09","slug":"how-many-voiceless-kids-could-a-camera-save-from-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/how-many-voiceless-kids-could-a-camera-save-from-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Voiceless Kids Could a Camera Save from Harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"How%20Many%20Voiceless%20Kids%20Could%20a%20Camera%20Save%20from%20Harm%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>Can a child with an IEP be recorded, filmed, or photographed in the classroom?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US Supreme Court has held that students do not have a right to privacy in the classroom &#8211; and this includes kids with disabilities in special education programs.<\/p>\n<p>Federal laws that are intended to protect the privacy of students focus on education records.<\/p>\n<p>Federal laws designed to protect the privacy of students do not prohibit cameras that record a child in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Making the Case for Cameras in the Classroom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a legitimate concern about child abuse in the classroom and the probability that cameras might lower the frequency of these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Many parents and advocates believe cameras in classrooms are the only thing that will protect children who can&#8217;t defend themselves, especially disabled kids, isolated in self-contained public school classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Other school district district personnel and teacher&#8217;s unions argue it&#8217;s unfair to use cameras to record thousands of educators in an attempt to prevent the misconduct of a few.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated 08\/19\/17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Can cameras protect special-needs kid<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">s from abuse?<\/span><\/em> [no longer available] asks &#8220;why is it in 21st century America, a world in which nearly everyone is under some kind of surveillance, that those who run our public schools believe their most vulnerable students should be purposely denied this protection?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article above about a series of reports from Houston\u2019s Fox 26 News reporter Greg Googan is no longer available. You can read about it in this 2013 Texas Observer post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/abused-special-ed-students-parents-cameras-classrooms\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Parents of Abused Children Plead for Cameras in Special Ed Classrooms<\/span><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/abused-special-ed-students-parents-cameras-classrooms\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/abused-special-ed-students-parents-cameras-classrooms\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The investigation in Texas led to the law that went into effect in 2016 requiring that cameras be installed in self-contained education classrooms at parent or teacher request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law \u2026 applies to all of the state&#8217;s public schools and charters, and to any self-contained classroom in which at least half the students receive special-ed services for at least half the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJomuPWbkss\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2016\/09\/21\/cameras-in-special-ed-classrooms-a-complex.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em>Cameras in Special Ed. Classrooms a Complex Issue<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2016\/09\/21\/cameras-in-special-ed-classrooms-a-complex.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2016\/09\/21\/cameras-in-special-ed-classrooms-a-complex.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/12\/15\/459405542\/coming-next-year-to-texas-special-ed-classrooms-video-cameras\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em><strong>Coming To Texas: Special-Ed Cams To Protect Students From Their Own Teachers<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/12\/15\/459405542\/coming-next-year-to-texas-special-ed-classrooms-video-cameras\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/12\/15\/459405542\/coming-next-year-to-texas-special-ed-classrooms-video-cameras\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/investigations\/Texas-Education-Agency-Reviews-Calm-Room-Use-Following-NBC-5-Investigation-303497861.html\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Texas Education Agency Reviews Calm Room Use Following NBC 5 Investigation<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/investigations\/Texas-Education-Agency-Reviews-Calm-Room-Use-Following-NBC-5-Investigation-303497861.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/investigations\/Texas-Education-Agency-Reviews-Calm-Room-Use-Following-NBC-5-Investigation-303497861.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The courts have repeatedly held that students in school have fewer privacy rights than when they are out of school.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras are acceptable in hallways and classrooms. Cameras are not acceptable in bathrooms or locker rooms where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Video of children, with or without IEPs, on school cameras used for surveillance of school property is considered a public record. Images of students captured on security videotapes that are maintained by the school&#8217;s law enforcement unit <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/gen\/guid\/fpco\/brochures\/elsec.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">are not considered education records under <em>FERPA<\/em>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>More Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/ferpa.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Privacy, Confidentiality, Education Records <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/school\/ch2a_18.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Legal Aspects of the Use of Video Cameras in Schools<\/span><\/a>, Department of Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a child with an IEP be recorded, filmed, or photographed in the classroom? The US Supreme Court has held that students do not have a right to privacy in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/how-many-voiceless-kids-could-a-camera-save-from-harm\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[206,1118,87,1116],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confidentiality","tag-abuse","tag-cconfidentiality","tag-privacy","tag-video-taping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22164,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions\/22164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}