School districts in the San Antonio area and throughout the state are monitoring students’ online activity and looking for threatening comments through software such as Social Sentinel or Gaggle.
Nearly 200 of the 1,200 school districts in Texas use software similar to Social Sentinel or Gaggle, including two San Antonio-area school districts.
“When confronted, the student said, ‘Yeah, I was really considering it,’ which surprised the parents. They had no idea. So they were really appreciative that we were monitoring it and saw it and we were notified so we could go out and prevent a tragedy,” McCampbell said. “It is a huge bank of language that it uses to really make that threat assessment and make a determination that this is something that the campus needs to be aware of,” Gutierrez said.“It allows schools to be very timely in their response and possibly save lives and prevent something tragic from happening,” Gutierrez said.
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