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• Family of Texas teacher, 39, who killed himself after being arrested for soliciting an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old boy on Grindr say police drove him to suicide and INSIST he knew he was talking to a grown man

Brian Petersen, a 39-year-old junior high school teacher from Conroe, Texas, poisoned himself to death with carbon monoxide just days after being released from the Montgomery County jail in August 2019..
( Snejana Farberov, DailyMail, August 9, 2021)

• Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

Apple intends to install software on American iPhones to scan for child abuse imagery, according to people briefed on its plans, raising alarm among security researchers who warn that it could open the door to surveillance of millions of people’s personal devices.
(Madhumita Murgia and Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times, August 5, 2021)

• Son Repeatedly Called Homophobic Slurs And Physically Attacked

Jason Cianciotto and his husband are suing the New York City Department of Education (DoE), the Board of Education (BoE) for New York City Public Schools, and several employees at the school their adopted son attended between 2017 and 2019.
(Robert Dominic, Instinct Magazine, August 2, 2021)

• Study Confirms School-to-Prison Pipeline

Children who attend schools with high suspension rates are significantly more likely to be arrested and jailed as adults – especially Black and Hispanic boys – according to new research that shines a spotlight on the school-to-prison pipeline.
( Lauren Camera, US News, US, July 27, 2021)