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Judge: School can move girl in ID-tracking case
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Boston Globe/Associated Press
Posted: January 15th, 2013
http://www.boston.com/news/education/2013/01/08/judge-school...
A Texas school district can transfer a student who is citing religious reasons for her refusal to wear an identification card that is part of an electronic tracking system, a federal judge ruled on [January 8]. The parents of 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez had requested a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the school district from transferring their daughter from her San Antonio high school while the lawsuit on whether she should be forced to wear the tracking badge went through federal court. Last fall, the Northside Independent School District began experimenting with locator chips in student ID badges on two campuses, allowing administrators to track the whereabouts of 4,200 students with GPS-like precision. Hernandezs suit against Northside the fourth-largest school district in Texas argues that the ID rule violates her religious beliefs. Her family says the badge is a mark of the beast that goes against their religion. But U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ... denied a request to stop her from being transferred, saying the badge requirement has an incidental effect, if any, on (Hernandez's) religious beliefs. Garcia said that if Hernandez does not accept the school districts accommodation of wearing a badge without the tracking chip, the district can transfer her to another campus. John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, a Virginia-based civil rights group that is representing Hernandez and her family in court, said his organization plans to appeal the judges ruling.
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