After the ACLU alleged First Amendment violations, Katy ISD has changed its internet policies to allow student access to websites that serve LGBTQ+ youth.
Of the six other Houston-area districts that responded to a Chronicle survey, including Barbers Hill, Fort Bend, Aldine and Friendswood ISDs, none blocked the Trevor Project’s website from high school students.
“Katy ISD’s filtering software appears to be improperly configured to block websites providing critical information and resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students in a viewpoint-discriminatory manner,” reads the letter., the organization said it found many districts across the nation used to have web filters that specifically blocked websites with LGBTQ+ content, often without the administrators’ knowledge.
“Despite the name change, the Human Sexuality category continued to block LGBTQ+ websites,” said Leslie Hack, deputy superintendent of the district, in a written response to Samuel’s complaint.Katy ISD weighs library rule changes, including telling parents when their child checks out books KISD also required students to submit individual support tickets to ask for specific sites to be unblocked, according to the ACLU letter.
“The inconsistency in KISD’s web filtering software is jarring and uniquely harmful to LGBTQ+ students,” the letter says. “If students in Katy ISD can freely access…websites and information harmful to LGBTQ+ students, there is no reason to bar students from a critical resource like the Trevor Project that has the power to literally save LGBTQ+ students’ lives.
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