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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

ASU Considering Requiring Students to Disclose Mental Health Histories

And at that point, I resign from the Alumni Board of Directors and stop sending any funds to the school whatsoever.

From the Arizona Repugnant:
An Arizona State University committee considering ways to improve campus safety in the wake of recent campus shootings may suggest that students be required to disclose their mental health histories.

Lawmakers and university administrators in other states, particularly Virginia and Florida, have been pushing measures to open students’ private psychological records to schools and police.

The ASU committee is considering the requirement along with several others as a way to boost security, said Sharon Keeler, a university spokeswoman. The committee was formed last spring after a disturbed student shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.

It hasn’t decided whether to include the mental health disclosure requirement in its final report, Keeler said. Details of any plan, if adopted, still need to be hammered out.


First they provide scholarships to illegals without them having to disclose their illegal status or pay out of state tuition, then they want to peek into people’s mental health histories.  It is beyond disgusting.  As if this whole issue is because people see psychologists.  Not because people decide they want to murder a bunch of folks.

Comments

Justin,

I think they’re way out of bounds here because of patient privacy laws.

Mental health issues are no different than any other medical issues - they’re private and protected by law.

The exception would be legislation requiring certain types of patients with disorders that have been diagnosed as dangerour - or potentially so - to be ordered put into NCIC by a judge.

The college cloud do a background check through a licensed agency just like you would for an applicant to a sensitive job and WALLAH, there it would be.

I still don’t think they could deny them admission based on it, though. That SCREAMS discrimination.


The future ain’t what it used to be.....

Pilgrim on February 21, 2008 at 08:28 am
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