Police to Receive Student Data for Checks Against Offender List

MountainLaurel

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:31 AM
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Police to Receive Student Data for Checks Against Offender List

Virginia's public and private colleges and universities soon will be required to submit the names and Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of students they accept each year to state police for cross-checking against sexual offender registries.

The little-noticed but groundbreaking law is raising concerns among privacy experts about giving police access to a vast new database of student information. They say the data could be stored permanently on hard drives and mishandled, stolen or used for unrelated homeland security or law enforcement purposes.

Passed this year as part of a crackdown on sex crimes and signed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D), the law also requires Department of Motor Vehicles officials to turn over personal information to police any time a Virginian applies for a license or change of address. It goes into effect July 1.

State police officials say they do not plan to retain the student data for long periods, but the provisions will give law enforcement authorities yearly access to information on tens of thousands of students that they must now request on a case-by-case basis when a crime is committed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901429.html

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rodeodance

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:33 AM
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1. my god, it just gets worse

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leeroysphitz

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:38 AM
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2. Jesus. This is just unreal.

Can't anybody see the writing on the wall? Or am I still a kook if I call the u.s. a police state?

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MountainLaurel

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:46 AM
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4. Nope, you're not a kook

Just observative and informed.

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unhappycamper

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:39 AM
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3. Just remember:

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