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How Michigan's Rochester Community Schools targeted parents critical of COVID-19 policies

DETROIT — Elena Dinverno hoped to stay in her dream job as marketing director for Blake's Hard Cider until she retired, but she was abruptly fired seven days before Christmas in 2020.

Tribune News Service · Mar 12, 2022

Brickbat: School Disciplinarian

In Michigan, Rochester Community Schools Superintendent Robert Shaner admitted the school system monitored the social media of parents who protested school officials' decision to keep schools closed. Shaner also admitted contacting the employers of some of those parents and calling the police on one parent who called for protests outside…

Reason · Mar 1, 2022

Schools in Rochester, Minnesota, monitor parents' social media posts and have twice contacted critics' employers

DETROIT — The superintendent of Rochester Community Schools monitored the social media of parents who criticized the district and he and a deputy reported posts to at least two employers and one police department, the superintendent acknowledged in a deposition.

Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2022