Can I sue Callie Oettinger?

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Anonymous wrote:Np. She spent almost a decade fighting for records. Finally a court ordered the school to give it to her, and they give her 35,000 children's... This is on the school.

True. But then she publishes it for her two-bit blog for attention. That's on her and she should be punished for that.

Agreed. But I've literally been banned ieps with another kid's name unredacted (they replaced it with my kids name, but missed a few places!)

Handed, not banned. And this wasn't in DCUM area, it's in Boston, but I'm sure the same systemic issues are everywhere

Yeah, the thing is this tells me is that schools all over are just not adequately supported to handle the privacy demands placed on them. I just don't see why we think every school system should have to solve this problem on their own. We need national level data security systems for our school that are managed by people who understand these things deeply--not have school systems flounder through this individually.

Schools around the country are spending money on the wrong things. For example, in fcps, instead of spending money on data release process and cyber security, they spent that money on change Woodson HS to Woodson HS. Not even satire.

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Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

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What a disgusting woman. Who would do this to someone else’s children.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

Agree. Fcps needs to be held responsible.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

You're right, Callie totally violated parents' rights to determine what information about their child is posted publicly.

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Contact
Fairfax county Commonwealths Attorney Steve Descano. Maybe this was mentioned before, but he should receive parent emails. He is an FCPS parent as well.

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I am sure that this woman tricked the person helping her to get all of this information. That was her goal. She didn’t really go in to just her her data. That is why she will be end up being criminally prosecuted. Because it was her intention all along to steal other peoples data.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

You're right, Callie totally violated parents' rights to determine what information about their child is posted publicly.

Stop selling a false narrative. This is dis-information.

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Anonymous wrote:I am sure that this woman tricked the person helping her to get all of this information. That was her goal. She didn’t really go in to just her her data. That is why she will be end up being criminally prosecuted. Because it was her intention all along to steal other peoples data.

She tricked a paralegal and IT expert? Damn, she’s good.

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Fairfax county Commonwealths Attorney Steve Descano. Maybe this was mentioned before, but he should receive parent emails. He is an FCPS parent as well.

SD: Wait, so they just gave her the information of 35,000 students? Like, she didn’t go in all Mission Impossible style? Like they just handed it over?

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

You're right, Callie totally violated parents' rights to determine what information about their child is posted publicly.

Stop selling a false narrative. This is dis-information.

DP. She did have all of the unredacted files and chose what to redact. She chose what information was released without any consent from the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

You're right, Callie totally violated parents' rights to determine what information about their child is posted publicly.

Stop selling a false narrative. This is dis-information.

DP. She did have all of the unredacted files and chose what to redact. She chose what information was released without any consent from the parents.

Because unfortunately she didn’t need it.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to get this on the news. If book bans and parents rights make the news, this should. Will be reaching out to every news outlet. This is so ANTI parents rights. Youngkin should go crazy about this and the attorney general for VA as well.

You're right, Callie totally violated parents' rights to determine what information about their child is posted publicly.

Stop selling a false narrative. This is dis-information.

DP. She did have all of the unredacted files and chose what to redact. She chose what information was released without any consent from the parents.

No child specific data was posted. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume she has all the original information with the names of our children. I say that because I got the letter today. I don't see why this isn't criminal. Like, if the bank gives you too much money, and you keep it, isn't that stealing? Callie, I hope you're reading this.

Her website is still up and running with all its data. How is it not shut down? I am ready to take legal action against her.

what "data" are you seeing on the website?

There is no data on her website. But there is a poster/posters repeatedly posting here that the data is available on Callie’s site to freak out parents.

I'm not that poster. There is redacted data on her website and on the journalist article, but I agree that there is no evidence that she has publicly posted data with kids' names online--whether it's identifiable in any other way I don't know.
What freaks me out is not that it's online, but that she inadvertently downloaded digital data with personal information of 35k kids that she has decided to hold onto and no one has no idea what she plans to do with it and who she's shared it with. So far from what I can understand from what she wrote it and the articles about it seems that she's at least shared it with a journalist and the Goldwater Institute lawyer guy. We also don't know where she's storing it--is it in cloud storage? Is it secure? The wording of the Reid letter is that she says she won't publicly share it online which doesn't say she's not storing it online or privately sharing it. I get the critique of FCPS--their data storage/privacy are CLEARLY inadequate--but what does HER holding onto people's private data have to do with that?

If she's not ill-intentioned towards the parents of FCPS children whose data she has, what I would hope she would provide is a some kind of a certified statement that to her knowledge she has destroyed all of the children's private data and not shared it with others (I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what that kind of statement). Or at least provide a list of those others she has shared it with so we know where we stand.

For those of you who are defending her, I'd really like an honest answer of why she wouldn't do this--and why you think it's okay that she doesn't? The parents and the kids aren't the big, bad FCPS she's supposedly fighting. She would have much higher ground to stand on if she did this. It would re-focus attention on FCPS's flaws rather than her.

I don’t think anyone is defending her. I think we’re just on the side that she never should have gotten it. And fcps has a habit of doing this. Blaming Callie as the more responsible party is straight up false. The courts told fcps that last time it happened…with her. It feels like we’re defending her because there are so many crazies on here ready to sue for laws they hope to get passed some day because they’re super pissed. But they’re super pissed because they don’t like Callie had the info but not pissed fcps handed it over. And when you call that out, they cry they’re not legal experts and how dare you call out their ignorance because Callie is evil. It’s this circular argument the common sense people are trying to balance out the conversation, so the people who truly don’t know and are looking for rational answers aren’t misled by those who are just spouting nonsense and terrible analogies comparing what she did to murder.

NO ONE is saying FCPS is innocent or shouldn't be held accountable. She NEEDS to apologize, return all the flash drives, delete everything and so should the journalists. FCPS should be held accountable as well.

A lot of people are. When they use “inadvertent” and “oh, I’ll lobby them but sue her and throw her in jail”, it’s pretty one sided.

Ok. Parents should go after FCPS. What about Callie? Do you think she should be held accountable for her actions?

Nope, because a judge ruled if they give it to her, she has no obligation to give it back or not do anything with it. Laws can be changed but not retroactively. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on a lawsuit, losing and then making the same mistake a year later is the literal definition of insanity.

Now, if the law changes and it happens again, sure.

So you think it’s totally fine for her to share the partially redacted files?