What prompts Plymouth-Canton to block access to certain websites on school computers?

The Detroit News reports.

Student journalist hit with $8,000 bill for Freedom of Information Act request

Plymouth — Leola Gee’s number one lesson for her high school journalism students: Tell the truth, and deal with whatever comes.

But Gee never expected the quest for truth would result in a nearly $8,000 bill for a Freedom of Information Act request from Plymouth-Canton Community Schools.

Salem High School student journalist Chris Robbins had a simple question: What prompts Plymouth-Canton to block access to certain websites on school computers?

Robbins, who writes for The Perspective, the joint student newspaper for Plymouth High School, Salem High School, and Canton High School, wanted to do a story on the topic, and sent a FOIA request to the district office sometime around Halloween.

The blocked websites, which students and teachers noticed upon returning to school in the fall, had become a source of curiosity. Why was a website like Pinterest, which some teachers used as teaching tools, banned, while others were allowed? Who decides?