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Bill Details: HB68: Student Privacy Act
Sponsor: Rep. Jake Anderegg, Co-Sponsor: Senator Howard Stephenson
Bill Summary:
This bill:
13 ▸ defines terms;
14 ▸ requires certain people to protect student privacy;
15 ▸ allows a student or the student’s parent to authorize the collection and release of
16 certain student data;
17 ▸ prohibits an education entity from releasing a student’s personally identifiable
18 information under certain circumstances;
19 ▸ allows an education entity to release a student’s personally identifiable information
20 under certain circumstances;
21 ▸ prohibits a school district from eliciting certain information from students;
22 ▸ provides what kinds of student data may be collected and under what circumstances;
23 ▸ requires an education entity to provide a student data disclosure to parents and
24 students at the beginning of each school year or at the time a student enrolls with the
25 education entity;
26 ▸ establishes requirements for the State Board of Education related to the collection,
27 usage, and storage of student data;
28 ▸ requires the State Board of Education to designate a student privacy coordinator to
29 oversee the protection of student data;
30 ▸ requires an education entity or third party contractor to collect, use, and store data in
31 accordance with certain security measures;
32 ▸ establishes penalties; and
33 ▸ makes technical changes.
Reviewer Name: Jared Carman, Rating: Strongly Support
Reviewer Comments:
Parents must have a way to protect their child’s privacy, while preserving the ability for schools to teach and test. This is a common-sense bill that accomplishes both.
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Past Comments
Comment by Morgan Olsen (February 19, 2015 at 1:10 pm)
Rating: Strongly Support
o This bill makes huge strides in protecting student data. While there are a few changes I would make, this bill offers more than I could have hoped for with a single bill, and so I fully support it.
This bill
gives ownership of personally identifiable information to the student.
Allows schools to share data but severely limits the data education entities are allowed to collect and gives opt-out options to students for a significant amount of the data– so schools can only share so much.
Gives a strong legal framework with which to close loopholes – such as teacher collected data and data collected directly by third-parties, and data elements not specifically mentioned.
Prohibits collection of certain unethical student data elements.
Establishes $25k civil penalty for violations.
Limits what a third party entity can do with data it receives
Requires the Board to make public their data dictionary and data elements.