Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District purchased a technology service to monitor social media for threats of school shootings and suicides, years...
, the service monitors content posted to the client school’s social media accounts. None of the images had a caption or mention of the school or district.
“UCISD utilizes Social Sentinel to monitor all social media with a connection to Uvalde as a measure to identify any possible threats that might be made against students and or staff within the school district,” the document reads.Several Texas districts that have used Social Sentinel complained the service was mostly ineffective.reached out to every school district that used Social Sentinel, including Uvalde, for comment last year.
Representatives from Keller, Lewisville, Mineral Wells and Schertz-Cibolo school districts also said the service provided them with few alerts or alerts that contained mostly irrelevant information.said the service was helpful. Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, said officials used it several times to intervene before students harmed themselves.in February, the CEO of Social Sentinel parent company Navigate360 defended the service.
“It’s been a reaction to absolutely just unfortunate and deadly school shootings and mass violence,” Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a Republican from Southlake, toldlast year. “But what we have to ask ourselves is, ‘Do we have to create such a big dragnet that affects everyone’s civil liberties?’”
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