The Brief
- A family is suing the Marana School District over a teen’s suspension.
- The teen allegedly wrote email on a school-issued laptop that could be construed as a threat.
- The email was never sent and was deleted, but an AI-based software detected it.
MARANA, Ariz. – An Arizona family is suing a school district after it suspended a student for an email he never sent.
“Schools can only discipline students for speech off campus if that threat is a real threat, a credible threat, and here, that simply wasn’t the case,” said Aaron Baumann, an assistant teaching professor with the First Amendment Clinic at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
The backstory:…