No Data About Us Without Us: Youth Justice Policy Solutions for the AI Crisis in Public Education

What does the school-to-prison pipeline look like in the age of AI? Since 2025, education justice, youth justice, and digital rights organizations have come together in a community of practice convened by Twin Cities Innovation Alliance, the NOTICE Coalition, and CJSF to answer that question and fight back. No Data About Us Without Us is the policy agenda they built together. It calls on lawmakers to ban AI surveillance in schools, protect youth mental health from exploitative technologies, give young people and communities real power to co-govern AI, and defend students’ civil rights and disability justice. It also lays out practical strategies communities can use to hold schools and tech companies accountable.