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Students Have Been Called to the Office - Or Arrested - for False Alarms From AI-Powered Surveillance Systems

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In 2023 a 13-year-old girl "made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates," reports the Associated Press. But when the school's surveillance software spotted that joke, "Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-s...

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Lesley Mathis knows that what her daughter said was wrong. But she never imagined that the 13-year-old girl would be arrested for it. The teenager made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, which activated the school surveillance software. Before she finished the morning, the eighth-grader from Tennessee was arrested. She was interrogated, stripped and searched and spent the night in a cell, says her mother. That same day,…

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slashdot.org broke the news in on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
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