The Wall Street Journal has reported that Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has resigned positons at four entities, sold stock and forfeited options in two companies, and is signing his share of future patent licensing fees and royalty payments over to his university to comply with government ethics rules.
Taylor Carroll Posts
Pushback Against the CLOUD Act
by Taylor Carroll | Mar 27, 2018 | Data Privacy, Policing
USA Today addresses the privacy concerns raised after Congress passed the CLOUD Act, a bill that would allow police in other countries to have access to emails and other electronic communications more easily from their own citizens as well as Americans.
Court: South Carolina Law Poses Risk to Student Rights
by Taylor Carroll | Mar 21, 2018 | Children and the Law
Students’ freedom of expression and due process are put at risk by a South Carolina law that led to the arrest of two high school students for videotaping a classmate being flipped out of a chair, a federal appeals court says.
Adolescents More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Did Not Commit
by Taylor Carroll | Mar 19, 2018 | Children and the Law
According to Psych Central, experts are finding that teenagers are far more likely to confess to crimes they didn’t commit compared to adults.
A study’s findings concluded that because they are less capable of making mature decisions, teenagers should not be permitted to make deals where they face a lesser charge in return for pleading guilty.
Minnesota School District Settles Free Speech Lawsuit
by Taylor Carroll | Mar 9, 2018 | Children and the Law
The Star Tribune recently reported that the Edina school board has settled a lawsuit filed against the school district by five high school students and their parents. The suit alleged the school district violated the students’ First Amendment rights by refusing to sponsor and later disbanding their Young Conservatives Club.
Ethics Agency Finds Hatch Act Violation
by Taylor Carroll | Mar 7, 2018 | Government Ethics
The Office of Special Counsel found that President Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from using their office for partisan politics, after she advocated for Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s recent Senate election during live television interviews broadcast from the White House lawn.
Supporting graduate student survivors of sexual misconduct
by Taylor Carroll | Feb 22, 2018 | Student Sexual Misconduct
The Daily Californian explores the considerations specific to graduate students facing sexual misconduct issues and what UC Berkeley is doing to address these concerns.
Defining Consent
by Taylor Carroll | Dec 18, 2017 | Sexual Assault
In a recent Associated Press interview, NYU School of Law professor Erin E. Murphy brings attention to the complexity of sex assault laws and the definition of consent.
Attorney General Becerra Announces $2 Million Settlement Involving Santa Barbara-based Cottage Health System Over Failure to Protect Patient Medical Records
by Taylor Carroll | Dec 5, 2017 | Data Privacy
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $2 million settlement with Cottage Health System and its affiliated hospitals in California resolving allegations that they failed to implement basic, reasonable safeguards to protect patient medical information in violation of state and federal privacy laws.
First Annual Review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
by Taylor Carroll | Oct 25, 2017 | Data Privacy
Officials from across the United States Government, the European Commission, and EU data protection authorities gathered in Washington D.C. to conduct the first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield in September 2017.