Legal Question in Business Law in Georgia

privacy act

I am contract employee of a school system. I submitted my via and certificates to the director at which time I specified my information to be kept confidential. My file was previewed by another employee with the directors permission. This employee has taken my information and used it to probe into my background- not their job function. The school system is now suspending my services until they get ''further information.'' I do not have any arrests or findings against me. What laws does this violate? Are other employees legally able to access my file under the Open Records law? What can I do now?


Asked on 4/05/06, 11:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Scott Riddle Law Office of Scott B. Riddle, LLC

Re: privacy act

It appears that the bottom line is that you submitted your resume and/or related documents to the school system and employees of the system reviewed the documents. I am not sure why you think any laws were broken. If so, virtually every employer is breaking the law every day because someone other than the adressee reviews the resumes. You merely asking for confidentiality does not change anything, and it is their decision on their employee's job function. I would expect that any school system of any size has administrative or lower level managerial employees that check resumes, backgrounds, etc. There would be a concern if they did NOT do a thorough check on teachers. Perhaps you can post another note with more details on what you think was misconduct but I am not sure why you think laws were broken or there was other misconduct because they reviewed your file and did some kind of background check.

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Answered on 4/06/06, 7:33 am


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