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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a lawyer who has some familiarity with large companies and their data security, I find it laughable that people expect a school district to have similar security.  If they set aside the budget for that, everyone would be furious.  That's not what school administration is for, it's not what we want them to be skilled experts in.  [/quote]

Exactly.  I used to work for FCPS and my spouse works in a FOIA department for the federal gov't.  FCPS doesn't have *anything* like the staffing that most major FOIA divisions of government agencies have, much less actual tech-side data security staff.  My spouse was horrified by the lack of professional support for when I was part of a large FOIA/FERPA request.

Class sizes are SO huge in FCPS now that I'm appalled that the public balks so much about increasing FCPS budgets...but in addition to needing way more instructional staff and paying them far better than we do now, human mistakes like this are going to happen if FCPS doesn't have dedicated staffing (and a LOT of it) for a professional, experienced disclosure division.  [/quote]

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