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U.S. K-12 Schools Must Comply With e-Discovery Rule

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the better-funding-for-education-still-pending dept.

Lucas123 writes "K-12 school districts throughout the US have a daunting IT homework assignment over the summer: Develop systems that ensure their electronic documents, email and instant messages are in compliance with new federal e-discovery regulations, much in the same way corporations have been preparing over the past year. The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are expected to be widely enforced by the end of 2007, according to a Computerworld story. '"A lack of preparation could prove dire for K-12 school districts, which oftentimes lack technical proficiency, funding and legal expertise," said Robert Ayers, technology coordinator for the Kingston, Pa.-based Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 school district.'"

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  1. Heh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    K-12 school districts, which oftentimes lack technical proficiency
    In much the same way as birds oftentimes lack gills.
  2. Re:Not just schools by RingDev · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, if the President's IT Staff can lose e-mails, I'm sure the rest of us can too ;)

    -Rick

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    "Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
  3. Great headline by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I have visions of all these school kids being given ecstasy pills so that they can discover what drugs are about for themselves. When does the crack discovery program start?

    --
    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  4. Re:Not just schools by megaditto · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you seriously equating the President's IT Staff to the American public?

    Well, for one, the President's IT staff are not suspected of evildoing!

    --
    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  5. Okay, but don't overreact by JavaRob · · Score: 3, Funny

    That article freaked me out. Sure, schools... it sounds like a tough situation for them -- but I hadn't even known this was happening for businesses.

    I *am* a business. I have my own mail server. I don't think there's anything terribly interesting to the feds in there, but I'll be damned if I want them sniffing around my data!

    Quick as a wink, I set up a script that purges and overwrites all stored email, every 5 minutes. Take that, G-man! I sat back in my chair with a satisfied grin.

    10 minutes later, I checked for new messages.

  6. Re:What's .. Bush .. got to do .. got to do with i by BlueScreenOfTOM · · Score: 2, Funny
    Clearly you did not get the /. memo:

    Anything and everything wrong in the United States is in some way tied to President George W. Bush. The President is the root of all conspiracies in the world, including, but not limited to, all technical conspiracies. From this date forward, there shall be NO Slashdot article related to a conspiracy theory without mention of The President.

    In addition, those posting about said conspiracies are required to mention The President's "apparent lack of I.Q.", but may in no way tie this to the paradox created by assuming that someone with such an "apparent lack of I.Q." is smart enough to be the root of all conspiracies. I hope that clears things up for you.
  7. Same here. by pavon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know why all these people are complaining about the extra work forced on them by the government. Sure it took a few extra minutes to write an email purge script, but ever since then my work load has dropped dramatically. Every time I think that I have new work I just have to wait a few minutes and it goes away again. In fact my boss just came in to tell me that I don't need to come to work at all any more. Score!