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Policy committee debates consent, monitoring in school device privacy policy
Summary
Members and staff debated changes to Policy 3225 on privacy and monitoring of school technology, focusing on whether students, employees and parents must consent to district monitoring of school devices and networks. The committee voted to move the policy to the full board for consideration.
The New Hanover County Schools Policy Committee debated proposed language that would require students, employees and parents to consent to district monitoring of school-issued devices and the district network, then voted to send the revised Policy 3225 to the full board.
The discussion matters because the proposed language would make explicit that use of school technology constitutes consent to monitoring and logging, and because board members raised questions about parental rights, legal limits and how monitoring is carried out in practice.
Board member Miss Branson, who presented the draft, read the policy language that would require parental consent for Internet access and would state that "students…
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