Homework Responses Wk 6
Taking a parental view on both the family education rights, privacy act, the health insurance, portability, and accountability act, I believe the purpose of these acts were to protect the privacy of the child or children’s personal information from any one who is not legally responsible for them but still allowing the parent to have access to the information. The importance of allowing the parent to have access to the information is that, when dealing with the FERPA it’s always the parents who request the copies of their child's educational records and even have them amended if there is an issue. An example for myself: when I transfer from one duty station to the next I will need to request my children's records to get him re-enrolled in the new school. According to the FERPA, I can do this until my child reaches the age of eighteen, after which then the rights are sole given to him. When it comes to HIPPA there are three rules that would not allow a parent to gain access to the minors health records, they are as follows according to HHS (Health and Human Services) “1)When the minor is the one who consents to care and the consent of the parent is not required under State or other applicable law; 2) When the minor obtains care at the direction of a court or a person appointed by the court; 3) When, and to the extent that, the parent agrees that the minor and the health care provider may have a confidential relationship.” Both of these acts relate more to personal security by protecting personal identification information with each act securing its own unique set of information. One being education and the other is health. They both help prevent fraud.
With the need for a security officer at an all time high since 9/11, it is hard to say that training has improved. As most security companies still require the basics to gain employment like a high school diploma, background check and or a PERC (Permanent Employee Registration Card) which shows that you have passed a state and federal background check. Then most companies will conduct their own training based on their unique requirements. Three training factors that I find to be the most important that almost every security officer will at some point encounter are; one being able to properly handle paperwork such as entry log books and even checking credentials, not keeping track of who enter or exits a area could lead to someone gaining access to a area in which they have no business in. Second is how to properly search a person, not properly searching someone can lead to items getting in or out of an area in which they are not allowed, possibly endangering every one in an area or outside of the area. Third is how to apprehend a person, if a security guard is in a struggle with someone and chokes that person unconscious or hits the person in the head this could be bad for the guard as he may be held responsible, along with the company.
One way the military has mitigated electronic espionage is the use of CACs or common asses cards. The cards have a chip in them that we must plug into readers and use a pin number in order to gain access to certain information; such as enlistment records and so on. The chips are programmed so that you have to be given access by someone who is authorized to grant special access, even to printers along with depending on where you work you may not be allowed to have smart watches or phones in certain areas of the building.
https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/faq/what-ferpa
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/security-guards.htm