Biff_Poindexter
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Feds investigate after Florida school district gave students’ private information to sheriff
NEW PORT RICHEY — The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether a Florida school district broke federal law when it shared private information about students with …
www.orlandosentinel.com
"The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether a Florida school district broke federal law when it shared private information about students with the local sheriff’s office. The Pasco County School District shared information on student grades, discipline and attendance with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The agency then used the data to compile a list of students officials believed could “fall into a life of crime,” the newspaper reported. The agency is already facing a federal lawsuit that the intelligence-based policing program violates people’s rights by improperly targeting and harassing them."
Do these people ever stop attacking our police?? A school giving personal info about their students to law enforcement so they can compile a list to do predictive policing is not only smart police work, it should be done nationwide.
For example, let's say a kid gets into trouble for shoplifting or riding his skateboard in a restricted area...if cops decide they want to pay the kid a visit and shake him down every now and then, why shouldn't they? In the case of one kid, when police came to check up on him, they fined the mother $2,500 for having chickens in her backyard. They arrested another kid’s father after peering through a window in his house and noticing a 17-year-old friend of his son smoking a cigarette.
Basically without this predictive policing program, police wouldn't have a way to crack down on other crimes they stumble across when they go to the houses of these young thugs.