Parent tells board an email exposed student names and ID numbers; district says information not compromised

Andrea Moore, a parent of two district students, told the Beach Park CCSD 3 board during public comment that an email sent to middle school parents exposed the personally identifiable information of more than 700 students.

"There was a breach of students' identifiable information," Moore said during her allotted public comment. She told the board she had copies showing student ID numbers, first and last names, parent email addresses and individualized links and codes used for a survey distribution. Moore said she contacted the superintendent's office and described the incident as "very disheartening" and urged the district to take privacy and transparency more seriously.

Moore said the district's subsequent email to parents characterized the incident as an internal error and said the district had recalled unopened messages. In the district message quoted in the meeting record, administrators wrote that they "want to assure that this is a regrettable internal error and that information was not compromised, stolen, or shared outside the Beach Park Middle School parent community." Moore said she still had a copy of the distribution that included student names and ID numbers.

After the public comment, the board president asked for a motion and the meeting moved into closed session; the transcript shows a motion to adjourn to closed session and later a return to open session where routine items continued. The transcript includes a question from the president asking whether counsel would be contacting the superintendent; the record does not include a public reply beyond indicating counsel contact was expected and that the matter would be discussed in closed session.

The board did not make any public determination about discipline or specific remedial steps on the record at that time; the transcript shows the board took the matter into closed session for further discussion.