Alabama school system paid former FBI agent $157,000 to spy on black students
Huntsville City Schools
paid a former FBI agent $157,000 last year to oversee security improvements, including the investigation of social media activity of public school students.
That online snooping effort, according to records provided on Thursday, led to the
expulsion of just 14 students last school year. Of those students,
12 were African-American.
On Oct. 30, Huntsville City Schools provided records showing the system
expelled 305 students last year. Of those,
238 were black.
That means
78% of all expulsions involved black children in a system where 40% of students are black. Expulsions related to social media investigations through the SAFe program were a small part of that total. Of those 14 expulsions related to SAFe,
86% involved black students.
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(11/02)