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c/o San Antonio Business Insider

Northside Independent School District is taking bids on a $20 million project to put video surveillance and security upgrades in elementary schools. The bond-funded project is expected to take about two years to complete.  

The project calls for integrated security management systems to be installed in 74 schools across the district. 

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Tennessee experiencing turbulence on material compliance with Real ID.  Two Tennessee State legislators came out to defy federal requirements on State drivers licences towards the January 15th deadline. Yesterday, legal analysts in favor of the federal mandate batted back saying most of the State was in material compliance with the law and was eligible to become certified.   For those new to Real ID, a certified Real ID license includes a gold star and the ability for a locally issued license to be considered an internal passport by federal authorities. Tennessee passed a State Law demanding the repeal of the Real ID Act. There is an internal conflict between Public Safety administration and the legal precedent established against the federal law in the State of Tennessee.

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Florida takes $740,000 to the craps table as they consider gambling with Real ID.  Paul Henry, a local organizer against the measure will lobby the RIDE bill or the Real ID Elimination Act.  Florida State's legal resistance to the Real ID Act is alive and well.


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"Iran has introduced new biometric national identity cards that observers believe can be used to indentify dissident easier than before.   The card which can be used for internet usage, is considered a new measure to control, limit, and identify internet users and dissident cyber activists.

The Iranian government has been up front with its efforts to control and filter internet usage.  The new Iranian national identity card is currently being tested in the city of Qum but the nationwide release will start next year, for an estimated 62 million Iranians, says a Iranian official who was involved in the development process.  Iranian new year will start March 21, marking the beginning of spring.

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As Hernandez v. John Jay High School approaches federal courts and news goes national, more students face privacy and identity straits at schools across the US

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Over Thanksgiving week, the story of a 15 year old High School student in San Antonio retained national attention as the new portrait of community resistance to identity tech requirements adopted by school administrators.  With good reason, news is continually evolving about the plight of students across America who are coming to grips with standardised location surveillance by scholastic institutions. 

In the case of Andrea Hernandez, the student’s decision to opt out of a Smart ID card badge is coming to loggerheads with the school system.  The court conflict orbits the minor’s right to basic location privacy and 1st Amendment rights with her belief system and the schools technology of choice to record attendance in the Student Locator Project.  Her case was moved from Texas state courts to a federal court by judges just prior to a local hearing taking place today.  It is a move which seems to favor John Jay High School and the NISD, the school district administrators who comissioned the controversial program according to lawyers at  The Rutherford Institute.

"I think it’s unfortunate that these school officials are determined to continue to violate Andrea Hernandez’ constitutional rights, but their actions clearly show that what is motivating them has little to do with their students’ best interests and everything to do with fattening their coffers,” says John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. 

If Hernandez does not win her case, it would be both a tragedy and a statistic for privacy and 1st Amendment speech as Smart cards and biometric requirements are impacting more student populations across America than ever before.

FOLLOW UP: Hernandez v. John Jay hearing tomorrow

c/o Rutherford Institute

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Attorneys for the Rutherford Institute will appear before the Bexar County District Court on November 28, 2012 at 9AM CST in favor of a preliminary injunction against John Jay High School to stop them from expelling San Antonio high school student, Andrea Hernandez for refusing participation in the school district’s new “Student Locator Project.”

Rutherford attorneys filed a petition for a temporary restraining order and immediate injunctive and declaratory relief in Hernandez's defense, . [The document] alleges the school’s actions violate Andrea’s rights under Texas’ Religious Freedom Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Last week, District Court Judge Solomon Casseb granted The Rutherford Institute’s request for a temporary restraining order in the case.

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