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Elizabeth High School Students Target Of Sexually Explicit Tweets

An Elizabeth school official confirmed that police are investigating a series of sexually explicit Twitter posts.

An Elizabeth school official confirmed that police are investigating a series of sexually explicit Twitter posts by accounts that are targeted at Elizabeth High School Students.

Donald Goncalves, assistant board secretary for Elizabeth Public Schools, said complaints from students and principals about “very lewd or improper-type postings” started to come in on Monday, according to nj.com.

It is unknown whether the photos are of students who attend the high school, but the accounts in question use the school’s logos in their profile pictures.

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The principals from each of Elizabeth’s six high schools met with the district’s 5,3000 students on Thursday to warn them about the accounts and advised them not to follow, tweet, favorite, or re-tweet any of the accounts or their content, according to News 12.

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