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Privacy of School Records Laws:

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This school board member never voted to force any accountability by this superintendent when she took egregiously inappropriate actions to protect the teacher, further victimize the student.

CockroachHunter03/02/17 06:19 AM
Especially after the office of civil rights investigations of Melrose schools, Taymore has little credibility on discrimination issues.


Not to mention that Taymore falsely claimed to the Melrose Free Press that she had removed students' personal information violative of Federal FERPA laws, Massachusetts Privacy of School Records Laws: Their names, and outplacements and tuition costs, all still available on the IQM2 page on the school's website for all the snoopers to see. Would you want the whole city to know your child goes to a facility called Home for Little Wanderers or the Justice Resource Institute?

And where has Margaret and the School Committee been during these many months of open and egregious violations of State and Federal Laws?? Surely they were aware of the news article disclosing this serious violation. Did Margaret and her cabal ever care to even check to see that the violative information about our students is still up on there own website? Did our crack legal council and city solicitor ever follow up to ensure the information was in fact removed?? What is wrong with these idiots?? And why have they not fired the Superintendent and City solicitor for gross negligence and potentially exposing the city to multiple law suits?

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On behalf of the taxpayers of Melrose I sincerely apologize for arrogance of Superintendent Cyndy Taymore, City Solicitor and alleged legal counsel for the school department and school committee Robert Van Campen, SC chair Margaret Driscoll and the school committee members. They all are fully aware of the continued illegal activity of publishing childrens' names and the facilities they attend including tuition costs on the Melrose Schools and School Committee websites and for months have done absolutely nothing about taking the private information down. For the children receiving education and services from Home for Little Wanderers, Justice Resource Institute and North east Behavioral Health and many other facilities dealing with SPED and behavioral health, we are sincerely sorry that these a$$es continue to arrogantly violate Federal and State Family Educational Rights and Privacy Laws. It is our responsibility to ensure our elected officials do not brazenly ignore the law, and if they do, we should be taking action if the City's legal counsel fails in his responsibilities.

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Are you kidding me? This private student data is still on IQM2 on the school website and SC website? Taymore told the Free Press MONTHS AGO that she took immediate corrective action when alerted that they were in violation of Family Education Records and Privacy Act (FERPA). Presumably that means she took the private student information down. Apparently, she lied. Or was this another computer glitch?? HAha.

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Not so funny for the SPED students and families whose personal information was and still is being exposed to the whole world and to any snoops that care.

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Robert Van Campen is the city's liaison to the Mass State Ethics Commission appointed by Mayor Robert Dolan. He is supposed to be policing city employees who commit ethics violations.And Privacy of School Records Laws

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Melrose takes awhile to wake up and hopefully not to long this time.Perhaps the solution is a new superintendent?

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Melrose takes awhile to wake up and hopefully not to long this time.Perhaps the solution is a new superintendent?


Gosh - where the heck have you been? We've been suggesting this for years in this forum based on Taymore's first landing at our school system when she dismissed part-time staff who were making critical and short-handed programs work before she realized what she had done - never consulted with anyone - that was a harbinger of many bad things to come with her - the school committee is entrenched now since they can't admit they made a mistake.

People like you are just waking up to the facts - I guess better late than never!

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Melrose always does the proper legal thing. Now, with an abundance of caution they have two lawyers review every action. They never do anything against the law.

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Melrose always does the proper legal thing. Now, with an abundance of caution they have two lawyers review every action. They never do anything against the law.


And yet, the private student info is still up on the school's website for the world to see, even though the Melrose Free Press Article came out 6 months ago. So now the Melrose school department, school committee and their so called legal counsel have been in violation of State AND Federal privacy laws, exposing children to open ridicule for half a year. Thanks Cyndy Taymore, Thanks Margaret Driscoll. Thanks Robert VanKampen. Thanks a lot for spitting on our children every day for six months. Sickos all of them.

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See, that's the problem. They spend zero time trying to comply with the law. They spend most of their time trying to dream up ways they think they can circumvent the law, and the rest is spent trying to figure out how to hide the legal fees they incur when they break the law and get caught. The only ones who come out ahead are the lawyers.

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See, that's the problem. They spend zero time trying to comply with the law. They spend most of their time trying to dream up ways they think they can circumvent the law, and the rest is spent trying to figure out how to hide the legal fees they incur when they break the law and get caught. The only ones who come out ahead are the lawyers.


No - the only ones that come out ahead are: Taymore and Driscoll! Taymore is still School Superintendent instead of running her out of town - and Driscoll is still Chair of the committee - instead of indicting her for gross negligence!

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It is truly amazing and alarming that the Melrose schools superintendent can be actively and knowingly in violation of the law for over six months and not be fired by the school committee. Truly amazing, but again this is Melrose, where Civil Rights and respect for the law and children's rights take a seat in the back of the bus.

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More violation from this administration and more money spent.

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Melrose officials knowingly violating privacy laws that hurt children and then continue to take no action even though they have publically lied, claiming that they did? This is lawyer's paradise for suing the City and School Department for damages. The school's legal counsel and city solicitor should know this but has done nothing. Isn't that special? The Parents of the children exposed in the Melrose Schools Webpages are probably lining up Attorney Robert K. Crabtee right now. Another slap in the face to Melrose taxpayers who will pay for attorneys to defend these fools and the eventual settlement amount.

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It's amazing how things change .When people let you down.

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On behalf of the taxpayers of Melrose I sincerely apologize for arrogance of Superintendent Cyndy Taymore, City Solicitor and alleged legal counsel for the school department and school committee Robert Van Campen, SC chair Margaret Driscoll and the school committee members. They all are fully aware of the continued illegal activity of publishing childrens' names and the facilities they attend including tuition costs on the Melrose Schools and School Committee websites and for months have done absolutely nothing about taking the private information down. For the children receiving education and services from Home for Little Wanderers, Justice Resource Institute and North east Behavioral Health and many other facilities dealing with SPED and behavioral health, we are sincerely sorry that these a$$es continue to arrogantly violate Federal and State Family Educational Rights and Privacy Laws. It is our responsibility to ensure our elected officials do not brazenly ignore the law, and if they do, we should be taking action if the City's legal counsel fails in his responsibilities.
Private information of our City's most vulnerable children is still up on the City's IQ2M webpage. over a year later! Wait till the Feds get a hold of this, seeing the School district is already on probation with the Office of Civil rights division of the Federal Department of Education. Taymore, Van Campen, Driscoll and the entire school committee just don't get it...or don't care about our children, or the rule of law.