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Parents and experts press Beaverton board to tighten Chromebook filters and GenAI access; CIO says filters, telemetry and ERP changes underway
Summary
Parents and experts urged immediate changes to district Chromebook filtering and parental consent around generative AI; CIO Steve Langford briefed the board on cyberthreat volume, device filtering by grade level, telemetry and an ERP implementation scheduled in January and June.
Parents, an educator and an AI consultant pushed the Beaverton School District board on Dec. 9 to tighten student device access, citing distraction, access to inappropriate content and legal liability; district IT leadership described current filtering and cybersecurity work and said more monitoring is under way.
Jessica Bernards, an educator and AI consultant, told the board that district Chromebooks currently allow “wide open access to a good chunk of the Internet,” and recommended switching from a 'deny list' to an 'allow list' so students can only reach…
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