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‘Predictive policing’ continues in Pasco’s school; it’s been amended, not ended | Column Instead of ending the surveillance agreement, the Pasco County School Board worked with the sheriff to amend it behind closed doors.     Caitlin Al-Mutawa, of Tampa, a speech-language pathologist with Veteran's Elementary School in Wesley Chapel, speaks out against student information and data sharing between the Pasco County Schools and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office during a Pasco School Board meeting in December 2020. Listening, at right, is Pasco County school superintende...

Mon, Jan 25th 2021 6:29am — Tim Cushing Late last year, the Tampa Bay Times broke the news the local sheriff's office had set up a "pre-crime" program targeting schoolkids in Pasco County. The same program used by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office to harass residents into "moving or suing" (yes, those are the Sheriff's words) had been retooled to target minors, utilizing highly questionable access to students' records. Some deputies made dozens of visits a year to residents that the Office had declared pre-criminals, citing them missing mailbox numbers or overgrown grass. What's in line for...