In 2023, Lawrence High School in Kansas installed Gaggle Safety Management, an artificial intelligence surveillance system that scans student emails, papers, and uploads for signs of risky behaviour. For a price as a way to keep students safe from harm like drug activity, cutting oneself, or school violence, Gaggle automatically forwards suspicious material to school officials. The district signed a three-year, $160,000 contract, one of over 1,500 school districts in the country utilizing the technology, the Washington Post reported.

Students complain it is too draconian

Students quickly discovered that Gaggle was marking much more than it ought to. One art student described how some of her photography portfolio was deleted when the system mislabelled a portrait of girls in tank tops as

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