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Sultanik, Jeffrey, T. – School Business Affairs, 1997
E-mail has created friction between school districts' proprietary needs and employees' privacy rights. This article examines e-mail law (constitutional, statutory, and common) and issues (employer monitoring, discover problems, admissibility, and attorney-client privilege) and provides policy guidelines. The 1996 Communications Decency Act,…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Legal Problems
Peer reviewedMcDonald, Frances M. – Library Trends, 1986
Explores five issues related to technology's impact on privacy and access to information--regulation and licensing of the press, electronic surveillance, invasion of privacy, copyright, and policy-making and regulation. The importance of First Amendment rights and civil liberties in forming a coherent national information policy is stressed.…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Civil Liberties, Copyrights, Electronic Mail
Schuyler, Michael – Computers in Libraries, 1997
Discusses libraries' uses of filters to prevent access to objectionable sites on the Internet. Highlights include the American Library Association's resolution against filters as a violation of First Amendment rights; patron's use of terminals for e-mail or games; using filters for collection management; and listservs and online resources…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Games, Electronic Mail, Information Management
Beckham, Joseph C.; Schmid, William, Jr. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1995
Discusses the uncertainty surrounding the application of the First Amendment to electronic bulletin boards, listservs, electronic conferences, and other exchanges of electronic information at public colleges and universities. Applies the notions of nonpublic forums and designated open forums to the computer network. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Court Litigation, Electronic Mail, Freedom of Speech
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1999
The Law section of the Proceedings contains the following 10 papers: "The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994: Does Congress Have the Constitutional Authority to Override State FOI Laws by Regulating Access to State Driver's Licenses?" (Joey Senat); "The Truth Hurts: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress as a Cause of…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Court Litigation, Electronic Mail, Federal Regulation
Conn, Kathleen – 2002
This book discusses the key legal issues public schools face in using the World Wide Web, e-mail, and other computer technologies. Chapter 1 covers the foundations of school Internet law, including Supreme Court decisions, the legal standard of conduct, standards for technology literacy, and federal vs. state law. Chapter 2 discusses freedom of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Copyrights, Court Litigation, Electronic Mail
