The teacher and school case manager Buffy had for 9th and 10th grade turned out to be the inpatient psychiatric hospital tutor she had while inpatient in grade 7. AND this teacher/case manager blabbed that she knew Buffy from the psychiatric hospital to anyone who would listen- other students, other teachers, even spoke up about it in our due process hearing.....
I tried to have something done about this violation of HIPPA but, I never did get anywhere with it.
But now, I cannot remember for sure, BUT - I am wondering, - for reasons of collecting for services, - does that make it not be a HIPPA violation? I cannot remember?
Sadly what I found out by experience was that it did not matter how any "release of information" forms I flat out refused to sign....at school at our county mental health agency, thru WRAP and SASS, and at our local psychiatric hospital........it did not matter. THose people, when they wanted to wag their tongues, they did. ANd i never did get anyone to enforce such things.
I, myself was an employee of the same county health dept.....and more than once I would be in a restaurant, or at our local community college (taking classes) or at some work related event- and I would hear them---gossiping in my earshot about my children and my childrens diagnosis'es, treatment etc. I caught school personnel discussing same with my next door neighbor who does in home day care for school personnels children.....could hear them talking thru my bedroom window while they talked on my neighbors driveway.
I had more than one doctor call me to let me know school people had tried to call them-- getting the docs name off Rx bottles the school nurse had from medications that were to be administered dureing school day.