Thank you all for your responses, I think everyone is trying their best to help, so I am grateful for your efforts!
I did find those flag pages, but unfortunately as @jdmore mentioned, it appears to be a process that’s somewhat dependent on being a curator or administrator to see the offending photos and the copyrighted material they were supposed to be taken from.
As @kmforum mentioned it in a couple places, I did want to respond that I do take their efforts to be in good faith, however in the specific case I’m looking at there are multiple violations over many dates.
I don’t think I want to go to taking this matter further than providing a warning to the student in this case, but I would like to have stronger and more consistent documentation available in these rare cases which I get maybe once or twice a school year.
Unfortunately for me, I don’t feel comfortable providing even a warning if I don’t have concrete proof of a sustained pattern of passing off other’s copyrighted content as their own (plagiarism in my context), so that’s why I’m asking if anyone knows if such a system exists before I do a feature request.
I’ve already contacted all the flaggers and curators on the relevant flagged instances, but I haven’t been able to get what I need thus far.
It sounds like should file one based on the responses I’ve gotten, but I’ll wait a bit to see if anyone else wants to chime in.
Not all pictures removed for copyright infringement are actually copyright issues. Some people use this kind of flag to hide pictures that contain obscene gestures, nudity, racist symbols, Nazi symbols, etc. Unfortunately, this happens quite often (depending on the age of the students).
In most cases, the flagger leaves then a comment on the flag.
Back in 2017, I flagged something that used a pornographic screencap/photo using the “Offensive/Inappropriate” tag, and discovered that that flag didn’t hide the pic.
I’d wanted to use the correct flag (per iNat’s help page, spam flags shouldn’t be used for “offensive or inappropriate content”, but the curator who resolved the inappropriate flag advised me to use spam or copyright instead.
I contacted iNat support via email & they confirmed that the inappropriate/offensive flag didn’t hide content by design .
Of course, that issue and correspondence was from 2017…I don’t know if that’s still the case, or if people are forced to use the wrong flags because the correct flag still doesn’t censor the image.
I think, there is still no flag that removes inappropriate content like the copyright infringement flag does. However, I’ve seen that staff deleted such photos very rapidly even if it there very flagged as copyright infringement.
I did end up emailing them, and they provided very useful information, the problem is that it is not really a permanent or complete solution since I’d need to contact them separately for proof in each case that students have observations flagged as plagiarism.
I’m glad to see that there is more information available beyond what’s visible in the flagging system, but still wish it was all a bit more public since it’d make it easier on instructors to follow up, and would help show that the system for removing pictures that are plagiarized is robust and doesn’t end up flagging people unnecessarily.
