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• Manhattan Family Continues Fight For Special Needs Daughter's Education In District 114 (patch.com) — A Manhattan family is locked in an ongoing battle with Manhattan District 114 over accommodations and placement for their autistic daughter, who wants to stay in her home school with friends. After winning a temporary court order allowing her to return, they now say the district is resisting key 504 supports like noise-canceling headphones, break cards, and social worker access. Their fight has drawn strong community support and renewed attention to how Manhattan schools serve special needs students.
• Police say Flock is invaluable. But as misuse mounts, many wonder how to rein in the surveillance system (ledger-enquirer.com) — Manhattan's police chief says the village's roughly 15 Flock license-plate cameras have become a key tool for speeding investigations and finding missing residents, but only with strong transparency and oversight. The story details how Manhattan and other Illinois communities are tightening audits, limiting data use, and debating new state rules as misuse cases and privacy concerns grow across the region.
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