S.P. 93 - L.D. 232
An Act to Restrict the Posting on the Internet of Personal Information About Public School Students
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, two thirds of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §6001, as amended by PL 1989, c. 911, §1, is further amended to read:
§6001. Dissemination of information
The provisions of this section, the United States Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, Public Law 93-380, as amended by Public Law 93-568, and the United States Education of All Handicapped Children Act, Public Law 94-142, governs govern the dissemination of information about students, as well as applications for equivalent instruction through home instruction, comments on the completeness of those applications and all education records of students receiving equivalent instruction through home instruction.
A public school may not publish on the Internet or provide for publication on the Internet any personal information about its students without first obtaining the written approval of those students' parents. For the purpose of this section, "personal information" means information that identifies a student, including, but not limited to, the student's full name, photograph, personal biography, e-mail address, home address, date of birth, social security number and parents' names.
Effective September 18, 1999, unless otherwise indicated.
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