A Richardson Independent School District parent says her son’s school-issued laptop blocked him from searching for the sitting President of the United States, while searches for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein went through without a hitch.
The district has so far refused to explain why.
According to an exclusive report from The Dallas Express, an anonymous Richardson ISD parent provided video of her son attempting to research President Donald Trump for a school assignment. When he searched “Trump,” the device displayed a blunt message: “WEBSITE BLOCKED BY RICHARDSON ISD.”
The same block did not appear for Biden, Harris, or Epstein.
“My child was researching our current president for a school assignment and discovered that the district’s web content filter had blocked ‘Trump’ from search results,” the parent told The Dallas Express.
“This means students can’t access legitimate educational and news content, including current-events research, government and civics coursework, and basic search results about the sitting U.S. President. This is very concerning, as it amounts to censorship of information about a current public official.”
She then had her son test other names.
“To see if this was a broader issue, I asked him to test ‘Biden’ and ‘Harris,’ and neither of those was blocked. I also asked him to search for Eppstein, which was also available. That suggests this isn’t a general filter for politically sensitive content; it appears to be a keyword-specific block aimed only at ‘Trump.’”
The parent is now demanding answers: which board policy, administrative regulation, or vendor setting authorized a targeted block on the sitting President? Which department or contractor is responsible?
Richardson ISD serves more than 36,000 students across 51 campuses under Superintendent Tabitha Branum. Its filtering system inspects both encrypted and unencrypted traffic using category rules, application controls, and search-engine safe-search settings.
Officials have not said whether the Trump block was a glitch, a leftover category rule, or an intentional keyword restriction.
🚨BREAKING🚨Richardson, Texas, students’ laptop BLOCKED searches for President Trump but allowed searches for Joe Biden and Jeffrey Epstein.
Why is the district CENSORING Trump searches? Is this how your tax dollars are spent?
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— Carlos Turcios (@Carlos__Turcios) September 2, 2026
This is not an isolated pattern. The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly documented how public-school systems and Big Tech treat information about President Trump differently from information about Democrats.
In 2024, Google’s autocomplete buried searches related to the assassination attempt on Trump while serving up results for decades-old attempts on other presidents.
Dallas ISD previously investigated a teacher who was filmed in class acting out the assassination of President Trump with a water pistol.
Schools that lecture students about “misinformation” somehow have no problem letting kids look up Jeffrey Epstein while locking the name of the current Commander-in-Chief.
Parents in Richardson now have video of a district device telling a child he cannot research the President of the United States for a school assignment. Biden is fine. Harris is fine. Epstein is fine. Trump is blocked.
That is not a “content filter.” That is viewpoint discrimination dressed up as child safety.
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