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Posted on 01/20/2026 5:33:12 AM PST by daniel1212
These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store, and even monitoring school bathrooms.
Yet those systems come with a harmful catch — they’re a little too good at flagging bad behavior, leading to a staggering number of arrests and involuntary detentions.
New reporting by the Milwaukee Independent found that schools deploying surveillance systems to watch for online chatter referencing violence have logged an astonishing number of positive hits. Many of them are obviously not actionable threats, though they can lead to involuntary detention all the same.
In one school district in Lawrence, Kansas, for example, an online safety monitoring tool called Gaggle flagged over 1,200 online incidents over a 10-month period. Yet two thirds of those alerts were nonissues, the Independent found.
While many false positives can be waved away, schools in states with zero-tolerance reporting laws like Tennessee or Florida are required to inform police officials about cases where students hint at violence in any form.
In Florida’s Polk County School District — where Gaggle flagged some 500 students over four years — this meant that at least 72 kids so far have been arrested or hospitalized involuntarily under the state’s Baker Act.
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I don’t see the problem here - as long as public schools are ‘free’ (and thus I can afford the lifestyle that I deserve), what’s to complain about?
[I know, you guys with kids in the public schools won’t admit it, but this is EXACTLY what you think]
This one’s for you, Wintertime!
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I walked into a grocery store here last night and happened to notice a TV screen above the carts, and it was lit up and the red light was blinking and it said *Recording*, and there was a red square outlining my face as it was actively monitoring me entering the store.
It was very disturbing.
Public schools are designed to output compliant workers. This is just the latest manifestation.
This is the Chinese Social Credit police state concept being deployed in the US.
We: Wrongful arrests
Deprivation of rights under color of law is grossly underutilized.
Will people cheat on each other, using AI?
No more posting about making a killing in the stock market or I’m dying for a cup of coffee and a Krispey Kreme.
Man, I could kill for a slice of pizza right now. *neeenerrr neeenerrr neeenerrr*. “Oy, yer under arrest!”
What is Recurrent?
We fully agree.
People who keep their kids in public schools love their stuff more than they love their children.
Then there’s the nonsense “we’re in the best district in the state” argument.
BS. I live in what’s considered a very good district in maryland.
In the last few weeks it’s come out that:
An elementary teacher has gun and drug convictions and current charges
Another elementary teacher is also on County Council was suspended for a child abuse allegation
The superintendent, board council and board member were at a “education” conference. The superintendent called police to report that a black woman in a green dress stole a bunch of county property (laptop etc) from his room after he fell asleep. The others have either resigned or been suspended. The county seems to be covering it up claiming the stuff was actually in the room safe and he forgot about it. Uh huh.
That’s the good district.
Baltimore has entire schools, many of them in which zero students are at grade level for math and English.
Let me guess. “Black and brown students hardest hit” but the only students tagged are white kids. White boys specifically.
It is the cited Source/publisher,, one of those "media publishers," looking to make money.
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