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Committee advances bill to bar campaigns from harvesting student data on public school property; language draws concerns about attestation and scope
Summary
The Senate Ethics Committee advanced Senate Bill 212, which would bar candidates, campaigns and political organizations from obtaining student directory information from public schools and would require certain persons who discuss registration with students on school property to sign an attestation they are not acting for a campaign.
The Senate Ethics Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 212, a bill intended to protect minors’ information in public schools by restricting how campaigns and political actors may gather or export student directory data.
The proposed law would bar school systems and school employees from providing student directory information to a candidate, campaign committee, political action committee or political organization. It would also make it a felony (aligned with statutory cross‑references cited in the bill) to knowingly give false information when registering students or to disclose protected student data to an unauthorized person. The bill requires that a person who, while on public school property, "apprises" one or more public‑school students of their right to register and vote or…
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