This week, the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Western Regional Office will visit public high schools in Buffalo to inform students of their rights regarding military recruitment at school.

The Week of Action, an annual event, targets schools known to have high levels of recruitment activity. Teams of volunteers will visit selected schools before classes start and at the end of the school day to distribute No Student Left Unrecruited palm cards, which help students, parents, educators, and advocates understand their rights and obligations when it comes to military recruitment. The palm card provides two detachable forms to help students opt out of recruiting databases and keep their information private from recruiters.

This morning on Radio Civil Liberties, we'll hear reports and updates regarding best practices for students to protect their rights and their privacy information from being collected by these aggressive military recruiting practices.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 granted the military wide access to public high schools and students’ personal information, though the law also requires schools to allow students and parents to withhold personal information from the military. As recruiters intensified activities inside public high schools to meet wartime quotas, stories of aggressive recruitment targeting low-income communities of color became common.

Do you want to help? It's easy,just give us a call, 716-852-4033 or shoot us an email at westernregion@nyclu.org

What: Week of Action to inform students of their rights regarding military recruitment

When: Tuesday, Oct. 20 through Thursday, Oct. 22

Where: Tuesday: Hutchinson Central Technical High School, 256 South Elmwood Ave.

Wednesday: Kenmore-West High School, 33 Highland Parkway

Thursday: McKinley High School. 1500 Elmwood Ave.