Lake County Schools goes to court after 47,000 student records ‘mistakenly released’ to parent

The Lake County school district “mistakenly released” more student records than previously thought, and they are going to court to get them destroyed.A district attorney updated school board members on the debacle during a meeting Monday.Originally the school district said 1,800 student records were “inadvertently released” with someone unauthorized to receive them last month. On Monday the attorney said that person was a parent who had made a public records request.“A district employee mistakenly emailed the parent a link that provided access to other students’ records,” said district attorney Scott Cole. “This was an employee error. Mistakes happen, and the best the district can do is try to correct that mistake.”However, the parent apparently posted on Facebook that they received 47,000 student records, which the district has now confirmed.“47,000 is a big number, and that number should concern parents,” said Cole.The district asked the parent to destroy the records and sign an affi