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Privacy lawsuit brought against sex offender background checks in schools

By Douglas A. Berman

This summer I blogged here about a notable new technology that some school systems have started using to try to prevent sex offenders from getting into schools.  Now I see from this local Texas story, headlined "School safety check draws lawsuit: Couple objects to device that spots sex offenders by scanning licenses," that this new form of techno-security is now the subject of a lawsuit.  Here are the specifics: A background check system used by many Texas schools to spot visitors who are sex offenders is being challenged by two parents who say the process violates their privacy and other rights. Yvonne and Larry Meadows are suing the Lake Travis school district over a computer system that checks visitors against a sex offender database by scanning their driver's license...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).