June 22, 2007

Report on Virginia Tech Shootings Urges Clarification of Privacy Laws

By KARIN FISCHER

Educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws, a report on the Virginia Tech shootings said last week. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and two other Bush cabinet secretaries worked on the report.

The "Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy" called on the Departments of Education and

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