California school districts have inconsistent cellphone policies, ACLU report finds

Rick Rojas:

A new report by the American Civil Liberties Union found that school districts across California have inconsistent policies regarding a school's ability to search the contents of a student's cellphone, often encroaching on a student's right to privacy.

The ACLU of California said searches have become a bigger, and more common, issue as cellphones have become pervasive among students. The report's authors -- Brendan Hamme and Hector O. Villagra of the ACLU of Southern California -- contend that searching phones could be a serious invasion of privacy, considering the amount of personal data a device could contain, including financial information, photos, videos and text messages with intimate conversations.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 13, 2011 1:27 AM
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