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Yakima policy limits freedom
The Yakima School District recently implemented a daytime curfew/student truancy program with local police departments to crack down on minor children who are skipping school. The policy authorizes the local police to stop and question minors who appear to be school age and are seen in public during normal school hours. Under this policy, the officers may transfer the minor to the appropriate school, to the district office, or to the police station.
Yakima has urged homeschool families who have minor children to obtain an identification card from the district registration office. While the ID card is not required by law,`CAHome School Legal Defense Association is concerned that the information obtained by the Yakima School District to issue these cards may not be private and could possibly be available for inspection and copying by any person who requests it under the Revised Code of Washington 42.17.270. While RCW 42.17.310 does protect "personal information in any files maintained for students in public schools," it has never been tested for a homeschool student's records.
HSLDA is opposed to daytime curfews because they restrict the fundamental constitutional rights of homeschool families. We will continue to confront this issue wherever it emerges.
— by Thomas J. Schmidt
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