The Boston Public School District is apologizing and saying everything’s under control after Boston Latin Academy accidentally emailed out some personal student data.
The district acknowledges that in December, a spreadsheet that included personal information “was inadvertently included” in a post about a BLA improvement plan posted on the school’s website.
BPS says it immediately pulled down that spreadsheet when it realized what happened, and the district says it can see that only one person — the one who let the school know this had happened — viewed the data.
However, according to the district, that person downloaded the data, so the district had to contact them and request that the info “be destroyed and that the individual certify the destruction of the downloaded information.” The district now has assurances that that has happened, it says.
“We are committed to protecting students’ data and have taken all steps to restore student privacy including immediately restricting access to the information, auditing the access to the information, and then identifying the individual who accessed and downloaded information and obtained certification that the file has been destroyed,” the district said in a Friday statement. “We understand that this incident has caused concern among our students and families, and we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent such incidents from occurring again.”
