Leading Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake voiced support for putting cameras in schools in order to allow parents to monitor what educators are teaching their children, and Gov. Doug Ducey responded by criticizing the idea.
Ducey said during a press conference that it could lead to “predators” monitoring children, the Arizona Capitol Times reported. “We’ve got young kids in these classrooms,” he said. “We want to protect them from predators, of course.”
However, Lake said during a talk with the Conservative Republican Club of Kingman that the cameras would film the teachers, not the students. And the video would not be livestreamed. Regardless, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects children from outside parties obtaining personal information about them, so it is unlikely that strangers could obtain videos of students.
The Republican challenger told The Arizona Sun Times, “Spineless RINO Politicians love cameras until we suggest using them for curriculum accountability. In fact it was Doug Ducey who introduced cameras in the classroom when he shut our schools down and locked our children in their homes — it’s called Zoom/Online learning. My opponents lined their pockets by covering ASU Campus with cameras and filling the valley with traffic ‘gotcha’ cameras that snap photos of us and send us tickets in the mail.”
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