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Mom says Portland school refused to share evidence in hallway attack against her 15-year-old — until she hired a lawyer
The Roosevelt High mom’s case highlights some parents’ frustrations over privacy laws and student safety.

School districts’ reluctance to share information is sometimes based on misunderstandings of the federal student privacy law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, said LeRoy Rooker, one of the nation’s top authorities on the act and a former U.S. Department of Educational official who oversaw its implementation.
For instance, Rooker said:
Schools can show parents videos of bullying encounters or the assaults of their children, as long as other students’ faces are blurred out.
Schools can freely hand over surveillance video to police – without subpoenas – if security cameras were designated as there for law enforcement purposes.
Schools also can share with parents and police the names of students who are believed to have attacked another if a staff member is simply relaying something they witnessed or an administrator is relaying that staff told them that’s what they saw. “It’s a First Amendment thing,” Rooker said.

"Nearly four years ago, the district removed police officers stationed at schools, amid calls to defund police during racial justice protests over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police."

“She was like ‘I’m not OK. I need to go to the hospital. Come get me,’” Kali recalled. “When we showed up it was significantly past the assault, my daughter was so visibly injured and they hadn’t done anything.”
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[not reporting in a timely manner and getting appropriate medical attention will get them cited by the district but its not public. They use this record to track the violators as they move then around the district]

"...her daughter, who was wearing noise canceling earbuds because sounds at school can sometimes overwhelm her, was deep in thought in the hallway when the older student walked up to her and said “Why are you looking at me sideways?”"