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Board approves short‑term Safer Together testing MOU after debate over consent and data language
Summary
The board voted to approve an MOU with Safer Together to provide rapid antigen testing through June 2022, while commissioners pressed staff to clarify consent language that warned parents they might be giving up "substantial legal rights" and to confirm data‑sharing protections.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted Jan. 25 to approve an MOU with Safer Together to provide rapid antigen testing at district sites through June 2022, after commissioners and staff debated privacy and consent language and the contract’s term.
Commissioner Collins led questions about the online registration language she encountered while trying to sign up as a parent, reading a passage that said a signer "acknowledge[s] I am voluntarily giving up substantial legal rights" in exchange for testing. Collins said she did not understand what "substantial legal rights" parents…
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