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Facebook posts permit school district to remove teacher from tenured position.

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2013

A New Jersey appellate panel has upheld the decision to fire a tenured first-grade teacher because of critical postings she made toward her students

Ombudsmen decisions - The Hobbit and Ministers' personal interests

  • Russell McVeagh
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 8 2013

In the past week the Ombudsmen released two opinions concerning high-profile requests under the Official Information Act. The two situations differ

Tennessee government update

  • Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

This week, the members of the new 108th General Assembly of the State of Tennessee convened in Nashville. With a Republican supermajority in control

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

New California legislation to protect social media accounts of employees and students

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 17 2012

In response to ‘quickly evolving technologies’, California has passed legislation preventing employers and public and private post-secondary educational institutions from requiring or requesting an employee or a student, prospective student or student group to disclose ‘personal social media information’, including user names and passwords, or from accessing personal social media information in the presence of the employer or the institution’s employee or representative, as the case may be

California becomes third state to limit access to employees and students' social media accounts

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2012

Late last week, California Governor Jerry Brown "took to Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and MySpace to announce that he has signed two bills that increase privacy protections for social media users in California."

No password for you: california enacts social media privacy laws affecting employers and postsecondary educational institutions

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2012

Addressing a recent hot topic regarding the forced disclosure of social media passwords andor content as part of the employment application process, California has promptly resolved the issue legislatively

Senators push FTC to investigate online "lead generators"

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 27 2012

A group of Democratic senators is requesting that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) investigate third-party online marketing companies so-called “lead generators” used by private-sector schools

K 12 education alerts: June 2011 - June 2012

  • Franczek Radelet PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2012

On Monday, June 13, 2011, Governor Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 7, the sweeping education reform bill that is the product of months of negotiations between a broad group of stakeholders that included representatives from both management and labor

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

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