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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree. FCPS is careless with these records and needs to fix this problem ASAP.[/quote]

No one disagrees with this. But two wrongs don't make a right and her choice to not inform the district that she was accidentally given the records, and then publish them herself, is wrong.[/quote]

I actually had a situation where medical records of a different child were sent to a surgeon, who did not discover the mistake until he was in the middle of the surgery on my child.

Working backwards, it was an honest mistake.

However, my keeping quiet and only discreetly following up with the office at fault would serve no purpose for the greater good and would perhaps result in a similar situation happening to another child that did not end as well as it did for my child.

Sometimes, as distasteful as it may seem, you need to speak up and inform other parents and other people affected by a big institutional mistake, even if it embarrasses or harms the person or organization who made the mistake.  This is especially true if the mkstake was particularly significant, sloppy, or affects someone else in a way that can cause long lasting harm.

As distasteful as it is for her to go public like this, this particular and type of data breach is not a unique occurrence for FCPS.

Is it an innocent mistake? Almost certainly.

Should this parent have simply quietly informed FCPS and let them sweep it under the rug so the district and school were not embarrassed and no one held accountable, with no parents aware that this even happened?  Absolutely not.

Sometimes, doing the right thing is hard and distasteful.   This is one of these cases.

Having experienced a critical information mistake myself for my child, [b]I think that this parent did the right thing by going public and contacting whatever affective parents she could find.[/b][/quote]

No, no, and more no.  What an invasion of privacy that is.  She could have gone public without being nosy and going through everything.  That I could get behind.  She let her curiosity get the better of her and invaded people's privacy.  Two wrongs don't make a right.[/quote]

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