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7540 - COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND NETWORKS
The Board of Education is committed to the effective use of technology to both enhance the quality of student learning and the efficiency of District operations. It also recognizes that safeguards have to be established to ensure that the District's investment in both hardware and software is achieving the benefits of technology and inhibiting negative side effects.
The Board, pursuant to State statute, requires when a school district library offers use of the internet or a computer, computer program. Computer network, or a computer system to the public, that access to minors be restricted in the following manner:
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Utilize a system or method that is designed to prevent a minor from viewing obscene matter or sexually explicit matter that is harmful to minors. To accomplish this, a library may use passwords and/or filters that restrict internet access for those under eighteen (18) years of age |
The Superintendent is directed to establish administrative guidelines not only for proper acquisition of technology but also to ensure that staff and students are making appropriate and ethical use of the computers and other equipment as well as any networks that may be established.
The Superintendent shall also ensure that both staff and students are adequately informed about disciplinary actions that will be taken if District technology and/or networks are abused in any way or used in an illegal or unethical manner.
Revised 11/13/00