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Bullhead City board reviews student-monitoring tools, district leaders describe alerts and privacy safeguards
Summary
At its Aug. 21 meeting the Bullhead City School District board received information about the district's use of monitoring software (GoGuardian) and a scanning service (BARC), including costs, how alerts are handled, and legal obligations to protect students under 13.
The Bullhead City School District governing board on Aug. 21 reviewed the district's use of internet-monitoring software and a document-scanning program intended to detect threats, self-harm signals and safety risks on school accounts and devices.
Dr. Stewart, the district superintendent, told the board the district uses GoGuardian and BARC and that the systems create keyword-based alerts that staff review when an incident is flagged. "The system just alerts to keywords. It doesn't make a judgment about is this bad or good," Dr. Stewart said, explaining that staff must examine context before concluding whether a student violated a rule.
The discussion came after a recent court case in Tucson involving monitoring of a student's school email. Dr. Stewart said the district wanted to be "in front of it" in case parents question why the district uses monitoring tools. She said federal rules…
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