Public commenter warns committee about student data in Infinite Campus

John Eppolito, who identified himself as a leader of a group called Protect Nevada Children, used the committee’s public‑comment period to raise concerns about personal and medical data stored in Nevada’s student information system, Infinite Campus.

Eppolito said the federal government cannot legally create a national student database but has funded compatible state systems and can access them. “It is illegal for the federal government to create a national student database,” he said, and later warned the committee that the amount of data collected on children can exceed that collected on adults. He said Nevada accepted roughly $17.5 million in federal funds to support compatible data infrastructure and that federal grants nationally approached “almost $1,000,000,000” to build such compatibility.

Eppolito said he had reviewed the data fields Washoe County provided and that district officials told him the record of Infinite Campus fields is “confidential and proprietary to Infinite Campus, Inc.” He urged the committee to consider the sensitivity of disciplinary, counseling, MTSS (multi‑tiered systems of supports) entries and medical/psychiatric fields that he called subjective and permanent.

No committee action followed the comment. The chair invited anyone on the phone to testify; no callers signed up. The meeting closed after the chair said a bill hearing had been removed from the agenda at Washoe County’s request and would be rescheduled.