District discusses student monitoring, past Gaggle pilot and mental‑health response protocols
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Summary
Board members asked staff to revisit student monitoring options, including Gaggle’s mental‑health services; IT staff said the district runs similar monitoring now, the system uses AI plus human review, and some alerts have triggered wellness checks with local law enforcement.
Board members asked district technology staff to revisit the district’s web‑monitoring and filtering tools and whether services like Gaggle, which at one time was piloted in the district, should be reconsidered.
IT staff said the district performed a proof‑of‑concept and a pilot with Gaggle in the past but ultimately adopted a different monitoring solution. Staff said monitoring tools are filters and occasionally items get through; the difference Gaggle previously offered is an integrated mental‑health/virtual counseling triage tied to alerts. The IT presenter said the district currently has comparable monitoring in place and that when suspicious or urgent alerts occur the system combines AI keyword/context analysis and human review to triage incidents.
Staff described instances when immediate alerts led to wellness checks by local law enforcement; they emphasized that human review is used so that alerts are not acted on solely by keyword matches. Board members asked about the specificity of keyword detection (for example, words such as 'kill' or 'shoot'), and IT staff said the system analyzes context and ranks alerts by risk before escalating.
The board asked staff to gather costs and specifics of options, including whether a vendor‑provided counseling/virtual‑therapy component is appropriate and how parental consent would be handled.
Next steps: staff will return with cost comparisons, scope of services and recommendations on whether to pursue vendor mental‑health integrations or continue with the district’s current approach.