{
  "id": "R-0458",
  "title": "Gaggle surveillance software flags deleted draft email, leading to student suspension, Marana Unified School District, Arizona, 2025",
  "short_title": "Gaggle flags a student's unsent draft email",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "United States",
    "region": "Arizona",
    "level": "regional"
  },
  "domain": "education",
  "system_type": "ml_classifier",
  "system_name": "Gaggle",
  "deployed_by": "Marana Unified School District",
  "year_start": 2025,
  "year_end": 2025,
  "harm_type": "individual",
  "subject_count_estimate": 1,
  "subject_identification": "anonymous_collective",
  "oversight_trigger": "litigation",
  "oversight_date": "2025-11-26",
  "remedy_status": "ongoing",
  "documentation_status": "verified",
  "summary_50w": "Gaggle surveillance software, deployed by Marana Unified School District in Arizona, flagged a never-sent draft email joke written by a student at home on a school-issued Chromebook. The student was suspended despite being off campus and outside school hours. EFF filed an amicus brief arguing the school violated First Amendment and due process rights.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "EFF to Arizona Federal Court: Protect Public School Students from Surveillance and Punishment for Off-Campus Speech",
      "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/eff-arizona-federal-court-protect-public-school-students-surveillance-and",
      "publisher": "Electronic Frontier Foundation",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-15",
      "is_primary": false,
      "notes": "Originating report"
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them | WIRED",
      "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/",
      "publisher": "WIRED",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": false
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/ai-school-surveillance-gaggle-goguardian-bark-8c531cde8f9aee0b1ef06cfce109724a",
      "publisher": "AP News",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": false
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "student_surveillance",
    "first_amendment",
    "off_campus_speech",
    "school_monitoring",
    "digital_privacy",
    "ongoing_litigation",
    "automated_flagging"
  ],
  "extraction_metadata": {
    "first_collected": "2026-04-15T17:03:32.403793+00:00",
    "last_verified": "2026-04-18T10:46:14.877322+00:00",
    "verified_by": "human_review"
  }
}