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Committee advances SAFE Act to require privacy, academic-effectiveness checks for school software
Summary
First substitute SB 267—creating statewide vendor privacy agreements, academic-effectiveness verification and phased transparency for instructional software—was adopted and sent from committee with a 5–1 vote after robust public testimony from parents, students and state education staff.
The Senate Education Committee voted to advance first substitute SB 267, a bill the sponsor described as setting statewide guardrails for instructional software used on school-issued devices.
Sponsor Senator Cullimore said the bill responds to parent concerns about data collection, addictive design in gamified apps and lack of statewide standards for academic effectiveness. He summarized three key provisions: a statewide digital privacy agreement that requires compliance with Utah student-privacy laws and limits secondary uses of student data; an academic-effectiveness requirement (peer-reviewed research or independent evaluation…
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