Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has been looking to spend $200,000 to contract software providers that could help monitor “social media threats” and “hate speech” targeting the school district, according to documents unveiled by a parent group.
In a now-closed request for proposal, or “RFP,” dated Nov. 30, 2021, the FCPS said it was willing to award a total of $200,000 to contractors for software that would allow the school district’s office of safety and security to expand its “social media research program.”
