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Committee hears bill to limit AI-driven discipline and school surveillance
Summary
Substitute SB 5,956 would bar automated decision systems from being the sole basis for student-discipline actions, prohibit many biometric inferences and restrict certain facial-recognition uses; sponsors and advocates framed it as protecting students and ensuring human oversight.
A bill seeking new guardrails for artificial intelligence in K-12 schools drew extensive testimony in the House Education Committee. Substitute SB 5,956 would prohibit school districts, charter schools and state tribal education compact schools from using an automated decision system as the sole or determinative basis for student-discipline decisions, and would restrict biometric inferences and many uses of facial-recognition services.
Megan Wargacki, counsel to the committee, summarized the bill's provisions: automated systems could not be the lone basis for emergency removal, suspension,…
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