In December, 2010, Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project presented a proposal to the school board of Township District 214 to offer the students and parents in the district a method by which they can opt out of the JAMRS database. In a letter dated March 21, 2011, they have decided to offer opt out forms in the registration materials.

Township District 214 includes six high schools (about 12,000 students) from the towns of Arlington Heights, Mt. Prospect, Elk Grove Village, Wheeling, Buffalo Grove and Rolling Meadows. These are suburbs northwest of Chicago.

Update: Tuesday, January 17, 2012:
High School District Releases Opt-out Statistics for the JAMRS

This Bulletin establishes the policy of the Los Angeles Unified School District with regard to military access to schools. The District is committed to protecting the rights of its students as well as providing as many options and opportunities as possible.

This Bulletin establishes the policy of the Los Angeles Unified School District with regard to military access to schools. The District is committed to protecting the rights of its students as well as providing as many options and opportunities as possible.

Montgomery officials cite the need to protect student privacy.

BUSD (Berkeley) has just passed a sister resolution to the OUSD Resolution protecting students form the JAMRS database that we passed last year.  This was after a 2 year campaign that paved the way for Oakland to pass our resolution.  Now it has gained momentum and sister districts seem very willing to follow suit.

SFUSD (San Francisco) will also vote on a JAMRS resolution next week so we are slowly making the BAY-Area an unwelcoming zone to JAMRS and the ways it invades young people's privacy to make them easier to recruit.

Please consider working with your local board of ed to pass a similar resolution.  When framed as a student privacy issue it seems uncontroversial and yet it is a very practical way to undercut aggressive recruitment in public schools.
Attached is the BUSD Resolution signed.

Policy approved by 4-1 vote. San Diego Unified is one of the country's largest urban school districts and is located in the center of one of the most militarized regions of the United States.

For more on the campaign for this policy, including a link to the video of the school board hearing when it was passed, visit www.projectyano.org/educationnotarms.

Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) Policy: To ensure that district students have balanced access to information about the range of educational and career options available to them so they can make informed decisions. This exhibit also establishes recruiter conduct guidelines to protect student confidentiality and preserve the custodial rights of parents and legal guardians.