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Committee approves substitute to bar school searches of personal-device content
Summary
The House Committee on Education approved House Bill 5598 substitute A, which adds language prohibiting school officials from searching the content of personal electronic devices that schools retain during school hours; sponsor Representative Casimiro and committee members cited student privacy and cyberbullying concerns.
The House Committee on Education approved a substitute for House Bill 5598 on June 10, adding a prohibition on searching the content of students’ personal electronic devices when those devices are retained by schools during the school day.
The substitute adds language that “no school official or agent shall search the content of any personal electronic device covered by this chapter that is retained by the…
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