Jessica Peters reports: About 1,000 past and present students in the Chilliwack School District may have been affected by a privacy breach that took place between 2005 and 2015. A letter explaining the breach was published by the district on their website on Dec. 22, 2017, but the information has not come up in any…
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Oregon psych board punishes UO counseling center director for releasing student’s records
Diane Dietz reports on some of the aftermath of a breach that made national news and led to revision of Oregon laws: The state psychology regulatory board voted Friday to punish Shelly Kerr, director of the University of Oregon counseling center, for giving a student’s therapy records to university lawyers without the student’s consent. Kerr, a…
Students Are Harmed When Colleges Release Medical Records (Letter)
Kathryn Becker-Blease, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oregon State University writes in a letter to the editor: The article When Students Become Patients, Privacy Suffers (The Chronicle, October 22) led Christina Cauterucci to conclude in Slate that “viewing medical records for medical reasons could help a university protect a student at risk of harm. But the University of Oregon’s meddling…
Patient privacy paramount (editorial)
On September 26, I noted that the Oregon state board for psychology proposed disciplinary action for the University of Oregon psychologist who turned over a student’s counseling records to university attorneys. The psychologist was the head of the university counseling service. Today, the The Register Guard has an editorial that begins: The University of Oregon is…