Convicted Criminal Claims School Is Responsible for His Crime

A teacher cannot be disciplined for refusing to conceal from parents the preferred names and pronouns that their children adopt at school, according to a recent injunction from the federal district court in Kansas. A teacher challenged the school district’s policies of (1) requiring teachers to adopt a student’s preferred names and pronouns, and (2)…

Whenever you have time to review your organization’s policies, put your child protection policies at the top off your list.  We have created a self-assessment checklist that you can download below or ask us about via email. Some of the components that people sometimes overlook include: Vounteers — It’s easy to overlook the fact that…

The U.S. Department of Education has issued proposed new regulations under Title IX, changing many of the existing rules for K-12 and post-secondary schools. In at least one respect, however, the new rules may force schools into choosing between losing funding and violating the First Amendment. The rules would require affected schools to address “unwelcome sex-based…

Federal prosecutors have issued one of their periodic reminders about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), this time about upcoming summer camps. The ADA does apply to most summer camps, requiring those organizations to make “reasonable accommodations” for campers with physical or behavioral disabilities. While camps have to assess each situation individually, there are some…

In this series, I have been discussing considerations that come into play when we need to depose children. The final, and for many lawyers the most frightening, issue in deposing children is how to ask questions of children. Like many tasks, it is more frightening than difficult. Fortunately, many other people have faced this same…