SACRAMENTO, California --- Both inside and outside the classroom, more and more U.S. students’ lives are increasingly digital and Internet-based. Tapping into public school students’ smartphones and tracking their whereabouts is a booming business for some companies looking to grow their bottom lines. Yet this data gathering is
MintPress Investigates: School Districts Using GPS, Ankle Bracelets, & Smartphone Tracking On Truant Kids
GPS monitoring, ankle bracelets, smartphone tracking — these are just some of the tactics school districts are imposing on truant students. And software companies eager to pad out their bottom lines with government funds are happy to help.
By
Michelle Matisons
and
Seth Sandronsky

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Seth Sandronsky
Seth Sandronsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Black Agenda Report, Capital & Main, CounterPunch, Earth Island Journal, Monthly Review, Race and Class, Review of Radical Political Economics, Sacramento News & Review, Socialism and Democracy, The Progressive Populist and Z Magazine, among other publications. A brother, father, grandfather and uncle, he lives and writes in Sacramento, Calif.