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State board approves rule to collect school employees' work email addresses, asks legislature to repeal sharing requirement
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education approved R277-482 (draft 2) to require LEAs to provide work email addresses for school employees, and voted to request staff work with the Legislature to repeal Utah Code 53G-7-224, which allows legislators access to those addresses for up to three joint emails per year.
The Utah State Board of Education on a voice vote approved R277-482 (draft 2) to collect work email addresses for school employees and adopted an amendment directing staff to work with the Legislature to repeal the statutory sharing provision in Utah Code section 53G-7-224. The final vote on the amended motion was 10 yeses, 3 abstentions and 1 no.
Board members said the rule is intended to comply with recent legislation while the requested repeal would remove the statutory requirement that the board provide work email addresses to the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House and allow them to jointly email school personnel up to three times per year. "Before October 1 of each year, an LEA shall provide the state board with the work email address of each school employee," Deputy…
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