{"id":16183,"date":"2025-03-29T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-colleges-are-surveilling-students-now\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:36:01","slug":"how-colleges-are-surveilling-students-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-colleges-are-surveilling-students-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the University of Pennsylvania last fall, someone splattered red paint on a statue honoring Benjamin Franklin, the school\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Within hours, campus workers washed it off. But the university was eager to find the culprit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A pro-Palestinian group had claimed responsibility on social media. The university examined footage and identified a student\u2019s cellphone number using data from the campus Wi-Fi near the statue at the time it was vandalized. Campus police obtained a search warrant for T-Mobile\u2019s call records for the phone, and later a warrant to seize the phone itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Oct. 18 at 6 a.m., armed campus and city police appeared at the off-campus home of a student believed to be the phone\u2019s owner. A neighbor said they shined lights into her bedroom window, holding guns. Then they entered the student\u2019s apartment and seized his phone, according to a police filing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Months later, the student has not been charged with any crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Penn investigation, which remains open, is one of several across the country in which universities have turned to more sophisticated technology and shows of police force to investigate student vandalism and other property crimes related to pro-Palestinian demonstrations. (The student who had his phone seized did not respond to an interview request.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The warrants were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2025\/01\/penn-surveillance-investigation-vandalism-search-warrants\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn\u2019s independent student newspaper, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/litigation\/the-daily-pennsylvanian-v-city-of-philadelphia\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> after police did not initially file the warrants with a local court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Much of it happened even before President Trump returned to office. Since then, he has made clear he will use his power to force universities to take a hard line on protests. His administration has warned 60 universities that they could face penalties from investigations into antisemitism, and has also begun seeking to deport protesters. At least nine current or former students and one professor who were legally in the United States with visas or green cards have already been targeted, with at least <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/tufts-ice-crackdown.html\" title=\"\">one student being detained on the street<\/a> by officials in plainclothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And it pulled <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/us\/columbia-trump-colleges-antisemitism.html\" title=\"\">$400 million<\/a> in funding from Columbia University, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/14\/nyregion\/columbia-letter.html\" title=\"\">telling the school<\/a> that it would not discuss restoring the money unless, among other things, campus security agents were given \u201cfull law enforcement authority\u201d to arrest students. In response, the university said it had hired 36 \u201cspecial officers\u201d with that authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Civil rights lawyers and legal experts said the moves were a fundamental shift in the way universities respond to student disciplinary cases. While arrests and searches are already often within the authority of many campus police agencies, recent tactics go beyond what has been the standard for campus security officers, said Farhang Heydari, an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Historically, Mr. Heydari said, campus police have tended to operate with discretion on matters that could affect students\u2019 futures, in some cases not<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>strictly enforcing the law. Campus officers might look the other way on matters like underage drinking, for example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If they enforced every law strictly, \u201ceveryone would be expelled, no one would be admitted to the bar or whatever,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThat would be horrible for the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6c07d45d\">A \u2018Fundamental Shift\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The widespread protests and tent encampments of spring 2024 have subsided, but pro-Palestinian demonstrations have continued, often peacefully but sometimes including acts of vandalism. Under pressure from federal officials and community members alike, many universities have moved to embrace tougher and more sophisticated security tactics to quell protest activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some experts worry the tactics could endanger free speech and civil liberties, particularly in cases where students have had their property seized even though they have not been connected or charged with crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt really does just seem to be an expansion in law enforcement power that maybe didn\u2019t exist 20, 25 years ago,\u201d said Saira Hussain, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates civil liberties protections online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Universities have defended their tactics, saying they are necessary to protect students\u2019 safety and combat discrimination. At Penn, the university said the apartment search was necessary to maintain order and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cUnfortunately, a small group of individuals, some of whom may be students, continue to take disruptive and at times illegal actions against the university community,\u201d the school said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey continue to flout policies and laws that they do not think apply to them, and then blame their own institution when they encounter consequences,\u201d the university added. \u201cLaws must be enforced uniformly and fairly and are not designed to be waived when they do not suit a particular viewpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The New York Times reviewed documents in seven vandalism cases that involved search warrants to investigate student protesters. One has resulted in criminal charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one episode involving campus graffiti in November, a dozen law enforcement officers searched the family home of two George Mason University students who are sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Authorities said they found Hamas and Hezbollah flags and other materials displaying anti-American rhetoric and an expression indicating \u201cDeath to America,\u201d as well as four weapons and ammunition. But the authorities indicated that the materials and guns belonged to other family members living at the home, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two women were barred from campus, but no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an open letter to George Mason authorities, 100 faculty, students, politicians and political groups protested the decision to bar the students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The university\u2019s president, Dr. Gregory Washington, said the search findings suggested that \u201csomething potentially more nefarious\u201d was going on, according to an email he wrote to faculty obtained by The Times through a public records request. He also said the university was actively collaborating with \u201ca number of three-letter agencies aimed at keeping our campus and quite frankly our country safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Washington also posted a public <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gmu.edu\/news\/2024-12\/update-campus-safety-fall-semester-concludes\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a>, and the university said it would have no additional comments on the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement it said that, in general, \u201cwhen it becomes necessary for the university to bar a student from entering campus, or impose an interim suspension on a student organization, such actions are taken carefully, with cause, and as precautions to preserve the safety of the university community environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5e10da0f\">Concerns About Privacy<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Penn, following a public outcry about the search, a committee <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/almanac.upenn.edu\/articles\/public-safety-advisory-board-ad-hoc-committee-on-search-warrant-execution\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> found that the police had behaved professionally. But the review raised questions about how such a search might cause \u201cdiscomfort and even fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">University police have sometimes <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com\/2024\/11\/25\/santa-barbara-court-packed-as-ucsb-police-seek-access-to-pro-palestinian-instagram-accounts\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cited social media posts<\/a> to justify their warrant requests. But the posts are constitutionally protected speech, said Zach Greenberg, a First Amendment lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech group. He said the tactics could chill free expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most students involved in surveillance cases were reluctant to talk about their experiences. Many students involved in protests have had their identities exposed or faced harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing legal work related to the right to protest for over 35 years, and I haven\u2019t seen this kind of thing on college campuses,\u201d said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Center for Protest Law &amp; Litigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Lederman represents, Laaila Irshad, a third-year undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who had her cellphone seized by campus police. Ms. Irshad is asking a court to quash a warrant that led to the seizure. Almost six months after it was taken, it has not been returned and she has not been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an email, Ms. Irshad said she felt \u201cincredibly exposed\u201d at the thought that the police could review all of the data on the phone, dating back to when she was in fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEverything is open to them from my random messages with friends to my Google searches about health issues to my political musings to my super intimate messages with family,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A university spokesman said the warrant was related to an ongoing vandalism investigation, but would not describe the vandalism itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least one warrant has led to a criminal case. At Indiana University Bloomington, a life-size sculpture of a former university president was vandalized with red paint on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After reviewing security footage, the university police obtained warrants to search a student\u2019s car and cellphone. The investigator found photos of the statue covered in paint, and the student was charged with two counts of criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7007c836\">Warrants but No Charges<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In several cases, students have not been charged with wrongdoing as a result of the warrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In September, three officers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, arrived at the dorm room of Laura Saavedra Forero, a senior who had regularly participated in protests. Ms. Saavedra Forero\u2019s lawyer, Jaelyn Miller, said she believed police officers targeted her client because she uses a wheelchair that made her easier to identify than other students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They obtained a search warrant for her cellphone and everything on it, arguing it most likely contained evidence about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/event-and-demonstration-updates\/statements\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">vandalism related to a protest<\/a>. The university said the warrant was related to vandalism of 10 campus buildings on Sept. 19, but declined to answer additional questions<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s very odd, for a low-level misdemeanor like the graffiti vandalism,\u201d Ms. Miller said, \u201cfor U.N.C. to seek a search warrant against its own student, not because that student committed a crime, but purely because that student attended a protest and filmed at that protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Stephanie Saul<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n 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