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AUTOMATING SCHOOL SURVEILLANCE: How Student Vape Detection Technologies Threaten to Expand the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Minnesota and Beyond

Motivated by more than a decade of school shooting tragedies, policymakers across the United States have made unprecedented investments in school surveillance technologies. School surveillance technologies introduce serious privacy, civil rights, and ethical challenges that directly shape the lives of vulnerable youth and young adults. In this report, we specifically examine the scope and prevalence of vape detection technologies in Minnesota public schools and offer a socio-technical analysis to better position student activists, parents, educators, advocates and policymakers to understand the potential of this technology to expand the school-to-prison pipeline and systematically violate students’ privacy rights.

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