Follow-up: Lawsuit filed over horrific student records breach

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mom_suit_dumps_on_hs_H5JfeGtqKkZCkRQzBANdTN

Mom's suit dumps on HS
By KATHIANNE BONIELLO
Last Updated: 6:02 AM, September 12, 2010
Posted: 1:58 AM, September 12, 2010

A Manhattan mom and her daughter are suing the city and the Department of 
Education after an East 25th Street high school dumped hundreds of 
confidential student records onto the street last year.

The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard boxes 
full of private records last September as it got ready to move to a new 
space on West 14th Street.

A tipster alerted Connie Click and her teen daughter, Skylar, to the data 
dump when it happened, and the pair, who live nearby, arrived with a 
shopping cart to collect Skylar's records.

The records included psychological evaluations, report cards and other 
papers with the girl's Social Security and telephone numbers and address.

The Clicks filed their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit last week, seeking 
unspecified damages.
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