I assume IRB approval would not be needed if the school was just using computer logs to verify that school policy is being followed. Regarding the "we are not

I assume IRB approval would not be needed if the school was just using computer logs to verify that school policy is being followed. Regarding the "we are not doing science here"... there is a lot of ambiguity with the use of the word "we" which students may have been instinctively reacting to. "We" is generally an inclusive term, and the students probably felt insulted that the administrator was dragging them into the mess by suggesting the students were part of the process, when they were not. However the students may have misunderstood the intentions in the administrator's use of "we" and maybe he was referring to an entirely different group of people. If I were a student or parent of one of the students I'd start making some calls to find out if any approvals were made for the under desk surveillance of students. Although from a liability perspective the onus is on any of the faculty at the school that fail to report a whiff of a Title IX violation.