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Student online personal information protection: operators of kindergarten through grade twelve sites, services and applicationssince 7 lines

Iowa Code § 279.71 · Read the law's page

  • If you operate an internet site, online service, online application or mobile application that you know is used primarily for kindergarten through grade twelve school purposes and was designed and marketed for them, do not knowingly engage in targeted advertising based on information, including covered information and persistent unique identifiers, that you acquired through that K-12 use (Iowa Code 279.71(2)(a)(1)).
  • Do not knowingly use information created or gathered by your site, service or application to amass a profile about a student except in furtherance of kindergarten through grade twelve school purposes (279.71(2)(a)(2)).
  • Do not knowingly sell or rent a student's information, including covered information, other than on an acquisition of the operator by an entity that complies with the section or to a national assessment provider with the express written consent of the parent or student (279.71(2)(a)(3)).
  • Do not knowingly disclose covered information except for a purpose subsection 2(a)(4) lists, such as furthering the K-12 school purpose, legal compliance, judicial process, safety or security, a school, educational or employment purpose the student or parent requests, or to a third party you bind by contract to the section's limits (279.71(2)(a)(4)).
  • Implement and maintain security procedures and practices consistent with current industry standards and applicable law, appropriate to the nature of the covered information, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure (279.71(3)(a)).
  • Delete a student's covered information as soon as reasonably practicable when the school district or attendance center requests deletion of covered information under its control, unless the student, parent or guardian consents to keeping it (279.71(3)(b)).
  • If you disclose covered information to a third party under 279.71(2)(a)(4)(f), bind it by contract not to use covered information for any purpose other than providing the contracted service to you or on your behalf, to protect student information to the same extent the section requires of you, not to disclose covered information you provide to subsequent third parties, and to implement and maintain security procedures and practices consistent with current industry standards and applicable law (279.71(2)(a)(4)(f)).
Student surveys: parent or guardian consent before a school district requires a student to take part in a survey on protected subjects, and before an employee or contractor answers a social or emotional survey about a studentsince 3 lines

Iowa Code § 279.79 · Read the law's page

  • If you are an Iowa school district board, or a school that Iowa Code 256E.7 or 256F.4 binds to the section, receive the prior written consent of a student's parent or guardian before requiring the student to take part in any survey, analysis, activity or evaluation that reveals information about the student or the student's family on political affiliations or beliefs, mental or psychological problems, sexual behavior, orientation or attitudes, illegal, antisocial, self-incriminating or demeaning behavior, critical appraisals of close family members, legally recognized privileged relationships, religious practices, affiliations or beliefs, or income (other than income needed to determine eligibility), whether or not the information is personally identifiable (Iowa Code 279.79(1)).for a public body
  • Before an employee or contractor answers questions about a particular student in a survey related to the student's social or emotional abilities, competencies or characteristics, give each parent or guardian detailed information on the survey, including who created it, who sponsors it, and how the information it generates is used and stored, and receive the parent's or guardian's written consent (279.79(2)).for a public body
  • If you are a contractor engaged by an Iowa school district, do not answer any question about a particular student in a survey related to the student's social or emotional abilities, competencies or characteristics unless the district board has given the parent or guardian that detailed information and received written consent, except as part of developing or implementing the student's individualized education program (279.79(2), (3)).
Iowa special education rules on the purchase of print instructional materials: written publisher contract requiring NIMAS files for NIMAC or specialized formatssince 2 lines

Iowa Admin. Code r. 281-41.210(3)(a) (special education purchase of print instructional materials) · Read the law's page

  • If you are an area education agency, a local educational agency or any other public agency in Iowa that purchases print instructional materials, enter into a written contract with the publisher, as part of any adoption process, procurement contract or other practice or instrument used for purchase, that either requires the publisher to provide the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC), on or before delivery, with electronic files of the materials' contents in the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS), or purchases materials produced in, or able to be rendered in, specialized formats (281 IAC 41.210(3)(a)).for a public body
  • If you publish print instructional materials sold to an area education agency, a local educational agency or any other public agency in Iowa, provide NIMAC, on or before delivery, with electronic files of the materials' contents in NIMAS, or supply materials produced in, or able to be rendered in, specialized formats, as the written contract the agency must enter into requires (281 IAC 41.210(3)(a)).

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