Disturbing. Another indication that school leaders can prefer restoring order to establishing justice. These are the measures that support a school-to-prison pipeline. This Iowa proposal establishes more surveillance.

Parallels between law enforcement and education are building. Both teachers and police feel embattled and grossly misunderstood. Social justice educators and advocates who want to disrupt oppressive power can't afford to take the introduction of body cameras as a neutral device. Like every other policy and practice, it comes embedded in a web of power relations.

And to recall my mentor Sari Biklen, "It's all just data until you interpret it. Then, it becomes evidence of something."