When administrators in the Burlington school district, a small district in Iowa, became one of the first to decide to outfit principals and assistant principals with body cameras for use in disciplinary situations, it had no idea it would garner national attention as civil liberties group began to push back.

While many civil liberties groups support equipping police officers with body cams, the same equipment for officials in schools does not get the same support; many are calling it a privacy violation to students as well as a tricky situation when it comes to allowing demonstrators to use discretion when choosing what to record.

"The cameras ... could pose an invasion of students’ privacy and even with strict guidelines in place, Burlington officials could open themselves to discrimination complaints because administrators may fail to record actions that cast them in an unfavorable light," Jeremy Rosen, executive director of the Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, told The 74 million.

According to The 74 Million, the Burlington district is not alone in its efforts as several other schools across the country are considering or have implemented body cams for officials or officers within the building. In he Houston Independent School District, its 210 officers will be outfitted by body cams this year through a four-month pilot program.

Also in Texas, in the Frisco Police Department, police officers including ones specifically assigned to high schools and middle schools will soon all be required to wear body cams whenever disciplining or conducting criminal interviews on school grounds.

In the Burlington district, cameras for fifteen school officials have already been purchased, but the measure to record must be voted on before the cams can be used. Voting could be completed and the pilot program implemented as early as January 2016, the article said.

While the district will struggle with mounting pressure from civil liberties unions as well as the national spotlight, officials say "[u]nlike the wall-mounted cameras, the body cameras capture audio as well as video, giving all sides a better record to determine exactly what happened — and whether there was inappropriate verbal conduct by an administrator," the article said.

They hope that despite unpredicted challenges to the program, body cams will get the green light.

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Article by Nicole Gorman, Education World Contributor

09/08/2015