Oak Park River Forest High School District 200 has joined a federal class action lawsuit a California law firm has filed against major social media companies, such as Meta and TikTok.Last week, the OPRF school board voted 5-0 to join the class action lawsuit filed by the Frantz Law Group. Board members Mary Anne Mohanraj and Audrey Williams-Lee abstained.The lawsuit alleges that social media companies have behaved negligently and recklessly in a way that has harmed students and that school districts have incurred costs to treat the harms caused by practices of social media companies. "We allege that Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube, and other social media companies have engaged in reckless and negligent misconduct that has caused a mental health crisis among our youth," said James P. Frantz, on behalf of the plaintiff school districts in an April news release. "Social media companies are and have been well aware of the harm they cause. It must stop, and we will fight to hold these social media companies accountable for choosing profit over the mental health and safety of children and their families." After the meeting, school board president Tom Cofsky said that the lawsuit is not about money.“My decision has absolutely nothing to do with money,” Cofsky told the Wednesday Journal. “It has to do with we have a real issue and the real issue is that there is preying on our students through social media.”
During times of high case numbers, the Maricopa County community spread map is a sea of red. The county does make this data available to download, and according to an ABC15 analysis, COVID-19 case rates are higher in the southern portion of the county.
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