For the past decade the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) would only provide “informal advice” to school districts with questions about how the Family Educational Rights and Act (“FERPA”) applies to surveillance videos. On December 7, 2017, the Department FINALLY released a letter which provides school districts with some guidance on how FERPA applies to […]
In the case of Janiszewski v. Belmont Career Ctr., 2017-Ohio-855, an Ohio appellate court considered the following issue: Whether statements made during a school board’s executive session are privileged in a defamation case. To be fair, the appellate court considered a lot of other issues in Janiszewski. Seriously – there was a lot going on in this case. […]
On December 4, 2017, the Lakewood City School District Board of Education unanimously reappointed Matthew John Markling to serve a three-year term as a commissioner to the Lakewood Community Recreation and Education Commission (“CREC”), which is a seven member, volunteer, governing body of all programs sponsored by the Lakewood Community Recreation and Education Department of […]
In the case of a significant case involving the continuing contract status of nonteaching employees under R.C. 3319.081, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a substitute custodian whose schedule is irregular with respect to days of service, hours worked, and school-building assignment is not considered a “regular nonteaching school employee” under Ohio law and, as […]
In the case of Sun Bldg. Ltd. Partnership v. Value Learning & Teaching Academy, Inc., 2017-Ohio- 8727, an Ohio appellate court ruled that “a governmental entity can bind itself to a [contract] by taking sufficient action before it is executed.” Sun at ¶ 22. The case involved a fight over the remaining assets belonging to […]
In the case of Laborers’ Internatl. Union of N. Am., Local 860 v. Cuyahoga Cty., 2017-Ohio-8552, an Ohio appellate court agreed with an order from the Ohio State Employment Relations Board (“SERB”) which found that a group of social workers were “supervisors” and not “public employees” subject to Ohio’s collective bargaining laws. Accordingly, the social […]