From school safety, to secret police, to environmental toxins, Why Don’t We Know the information we need to keep us safe? To make our systems more just? To protect ourselves from the things that are hurting us? How is privacy being weaponized to protect those doing harm, instead of those who are being harmed? This ... is Why Don’t We Know.

Why Don’t We Know Podcast
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From school safety, to secret police, to environmental toxins, Why Don’t We Know the information we need to keep us safe? To make our systems more just? To protect ourselves from the things that are hurting us? How is privacy being weaponized to protect those doing harm, instead of those who are being harmed? This ... is Why Don’t We Know.
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Publishing Since
8/4/2020
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Recent Episodes

June 14, 2024
We actually won a FERPA appeal
<p>We close out Why Don't We Know with a huge victory - a win against the abuse of FERPA, the federal privacy law that often leads to harmful secrets in schools. In this episode, we beat FERPA to get a video of an encounter between a school police officer and a student in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. </p>

June 12, 2024
The unintended consequence of police in schools
<p>The complicated and misunderstood history of having police officers in schools, and one group of students first-hand stories of what it means to have them in their hallways. </p>

June 11, 2024
Why do children end up in juvy?
<p class="p1">In our final drop of episodes for Why Don’t We Know, we explore the secrecy of the juvenile justice system, starting with how kids are often punished with fees and fines. </p> <p class="p1">More than 30 states allow kids to be fined while in the juvenile system, and it’s very difficult to figure out how many children are affected because there is such poor data. </p>
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