“But students seem unlikely to let the incident go without further action to help girls feel safe at school. Last week, more than half the school walked out, MSN reported, forcing classes to be canceled”

Nice. Based students. That kind of collective action is great and takes a lot of organising (I say that as someone who tried to organise activist stuff when I was at school. If you don’t have enough people who genuinely care about the case, you can’t hit critical mass for an action like this. Mad respect for these kids.)

Edit: formatting

Head of School Matt Micciche seemingly first learned of the problem in November 2023, when a student anonymously reported the explicit deepfakes through a school portal run by the state attorney’s general office called “Safe2Say Something.” But Micciche allegedly did nothing, allowing more students to be targeted for months until police were tipped off in mid-2024.

Good, I hope they win. Knowing about something like this for months and not doing anything is despicable and they should never be allowed in the school system again.