magazine title

Brigham Young University Education Law Journal

abstract

In the second part of this article, we first discuss the purpose of wiretapping (or recording) laws. Next, we’ll track the evolution of wiretapping laws at the federal and state levels and explain some important differences. Part 3 discusses the development of the Fourth Amendment in the United States. We also examine how the Fourth Amendment and wiretapping laws work together and apply to teachers. Part IV examines the inadequacy of current legal remedies available to teachers who are secretly recorded. We will then develop possible district and classroom policies to prevent recording. Finally, we discuss the critical need for laws regulating cell phone use in classrooms in each state. This article shows that in the midst of controversial issues such as state funding and bathroom bills, banning voyeurism is a common sense law that pushes education in the right direction.

Publisher

brigham young university

Recommended citations

Dakota Brewer,
Smile, you’re on camera: A discussion of teachers’ privacy rights in the modern classroom.2019

BYU Education. &LJ

139 (2019).

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