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Education committee advances bill to bar campaigns from harvesting student data in schools
Summary
The Education Committee approved Senate Bill 212 (LC473473 S), which bars campaigns and candidates from entering K–12 schools under false pretenses to solicit minors' personal data. Sponsors said the change clarifies FERPA protections and aims to stop campaigns from exporting student information to databases.
The Education Committee on a voice vote advanced Senate Bill 212 (LC473473 S), a measure its sponsor said is designed to stop political campaigns from entering K–12 schools under false pretenses to collect minors' personal data.
Senator Still, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure is “affectionately referred to as protecting the information of minors in public schools” and said the provision grew from incidents in multiple school districts where campaigns were alleged to have collected student information without registering that data with the Secretary of State.
The bill defines and narrows the conduct targeted, the sponsor said, and includes substitute language added…
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