Re: [privacy] Privacy and Baseball Statistics

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:49:25 EDT, Larry Seltzer said:

> In July, the Houston School District, citing student privacy laws,
> declined to release last season's Bellaire High School baseball
> statistics (such as batting averages), even though requested by a
> player's parent

At least at the collegiate level, those types of stats are specifically *not*
covered by privacy laws like FERPA.  Presumably Houston can't grasp the concept
that a student can choose to remain private, or they can *decide* to join an
athletic team, and since the events are presumably public, and *anybody* on the
sidelines can compile the stats if they so choose to, there's no reasonable
expectation of privacy regarding what transpires in the game.

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