Summary
Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Illinois, disregarded student privacy and safety when it secretly opened its schools’ restrooms to the opposite sex and then opened the girls’ locker room to a boy after the U.S. Department of Education under the Obama administration threatened the district’s federal funding. The agency based its threat on its inaccurate interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 federal law whose accompanying regulations, contrary to the agency’s opinion, actually authorize schools to retain single-sex restrooms and locker rooms.
Press Releases
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Federal court allows students' Title IX claims to go forward -
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Illinois families considering appeal after court declines to protect student privacy
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Federal agencies dropped from student privacy lawsuits
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Federal Overreach Jeopardizes Students' Privacy
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51 families sue feds, Chicago-area school district for violating student privacy -
Illinois school district on solid ground to respect children's privacy
Case Documents
Additional Resources
Jeremy Tedesco: The difference between privacy rights in abortion and same-sex locker rooms cases (Daily Signal, 2016-07-21)
Matt Sharp: ACLU misses mark on student privacy...by ignoring it (Chicago Tribune, 2016-05-25)
Matt Sharp: No, federal law does not require entities to allow men into women’s restrooms (CNS News, 2016-04-26)
Matt Sharp: Girls sharing showers with boys at public schools (CNS News, 2015-12-15)