It appears that the New York City Department of Education has decided to completely ban the use of Google Images in the class rooms the department manages.

NYC Department of Education Chief Information Security Officer, Oren Hamami, sent out an email to all teachers and administrators within the NYC Department of Education informing the teachers of this change.

According to one teacher who posted this email in a Google Web Search Help forum, Oren Hamami’s email read:

He did not specifically state what changed with Google Images but clearly he said that something changed and that change can harm kids.

I was not able to verify this with the NYC Department of Education or Google as of yet. But Oren is indeed the Chief Information Security Officer at the NYC Department of Education.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.