News 2018: Peltz-Steele Research Examines Student Privacy When Violence is Caught on Video

Co-authoring with a former student, Professor Peltz-Steele has published an article on student privacy law when violent incidents are video recorded. Peltz-Steele and attorney Kitty L. Cone argue for federal regulatory reform to protect K12 students victimized by violent crime or tortious injury

With co-author and lawyer Kitty L. Cone, Professor Richard J. Peltz-Steele has published an article on student privacy law when violent incidents are video recorded. In FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury, Cone and Peltz-Steele argue that federal privacy law is misconstrued by K12 school officials to preclude the disclosure of video recordings that capture students victimized by violent crime or tortious injury, even jeopardizing the health, safety, and lives of children. They argue that the law as intended should work in tandem with state freedom of information laws to protect child victims, and they call for federal regulatory reform to that end.

The article appears in the Oklahoma Law Review, the flagship law journal of the University of Oklahoma Law School, and is available for download from SSRN at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3191259

Attorney Cone is a former student of Professor Peltz-Steele’s.