Leave Those Kids Alone!

Remember when George W. Bush teamed up with Ted Kennedy to leave no child behind? Of course they made it mandatory that schools receiving federal money turn over all sorts of personal information about the kiddos to the warfare state.

Well, Mothers Against the Draft has struck gold, and launched Operation: Opt Out:

No Child Left Behind Opt-Out Form
Most parents are unaware that a federal law called the No Child Left Behind Act contains a provision that requires schools who receive public funding to violate family privacy by handing over personal information about students including names, home addresses and phone numbers to local military recruiters.

The good news is that students over the age of 18 or parents of minors may remove their children from this list by submitting a request in writing to their school administrator.

To download and print a No Child Left Behind Opt-Out form for yourself, click here.
To download and print a No Child Left Behind Opt-Out form for a minor child, click here.

JAMR Recruiting Database Opt-Out Form

The Pentagon’s new database, known as the Joint Advertising and Market Research Recruiting Database, contains extensive information on 30 million young Americans between the ages of 16 to 25. The JAMRS database is updated daily with new records and includes such information as social security number, ethnicity, grade point average, areas of study, height, weight, postal and email address, selective service registration, and phone number.

Any student 18 or older can elect to have their name and contact information removed from the Joint Advertising and Marketing Research Database that is being compile by the Department of Defense. Parents may sign the JAMR database opt-out form for their minor children.

To download and print a JAMR Database Opt-Out form for yourself, please, click here.
To download and print a JAMR Database Opt-Out form for a minor child, please click here.

JAMR Recruiting Database FOIA Request

If you would like to know what information is contained in the JAMR Recruiting Database about you or your minor child, it’s easy to find out by filing a Freedom of Information Act Request with the appropriate federal agency.

By law, any student can make a FOIA Request for information contained within the JAMR Recruiting Database on him or herself. Parents can also make the request, but only on behalf of a minor child.

If you’re at least 18 years-old, you can download and print a FOIA request by clicking here.
IF you are the parent of a minor, please click here to download and print the appropriate FOIA request.
To file an online FOIA request for information contained within the JAMR database, please click here.

Get to it, the recruiters are already moving into the middle schools.

Author: Scott Horton

Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s. Scott’s Twitter, YouTube, Patreon.