Schools hire monitors to patrol students’ off-campus online speech

2014-05-06T15:14:27-05:00

By Samantha Vicent Student Press Law Center Originally published in SPLC Report, Winter 2014 Issue At the start of the 2013 school year, students at Hoover High School in California’s Glendale Unified School District were surprised to discover their school district had been paying GeoListening, a social media monitoring company, to keep tabs on their online activity for more than a year without their knowledge. GeoListening isn’t the only company being paid to keep track of students’ online activity, however. Increasingly, schools and districts are turning to third parties for help monitoring students’ public social media posts. Monitoring, administrators say, can [...]