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Committee updates student, employee acceptable-use policies to prohibit unauthorized generative AI and align with new state law
Summary
The committee reviewed a student policy retitled to clarify computer and internet use and a personnel acceptable-use policy that both add prohibitions on unauthorized generative AI; the student policy also aligns language to Public Act 24-118 and updates the statutory term for child sexual-abuse material.
The Wallingford Board of Education policy committee reviewed changes to student and employee acceptable-use policies that add prohibitions on unauthorized use of generative artificial intelligence on district systems and align terminology with recent state law.
Ms. Latour, a policy committee staff member, said the student policy (renamed policy 6141.321) now reads "Student use of district computer systems and Internet safety." She said the update implements Public Act 24-118 by replacing prior statutory language with the term "child sexual-abuse material" in the student policy and clarifies prohibitions on students sending harassing, threatening or intimidating messages using district systems.
Latour said the change is not an across-the-board ban on using AI as a tool: “The, it’s prohibiting unauthorized use of AI. So it’s not that we’re not using it as a tool, but it is for when we’re using it in ways that we shouldn’t be,” she said.
The personnel version of the acceptable-use policy was updated similarly: it bars employees from using generative AI on district systems in ways that cause disruption or otherwise violate board policy, and updates references to current social-media platforms and network descriptions.
No formal votes were recorded on the acceptability changes. Ms. Latour said both drafts will go to the instructional meeting in March for further review and possible adoption.
