Duty LXD-8506
Serves K-12 schools, in North Carolina
Prohibition on a school contractor's sale of personally identifiable student informationsince 2 lines
N.C. Gen. Stat. 115C-401.1 · Read the law's page
- If you contract with a local board of education or its designee, do not sell any personally identifiable information you obtain from a student through your performance under the contract, where selling includes using it for a business or marketing purpose, unless you hold the prior written authorization of the student's parent or guardian bearing the parent's or guardian's original signature (G.S. 115C-401.1(a) and (b)(3)).
- Do not solicit that authorization or signature through the school's personnel or equipment or on school grounds (G.S. 115C-401.1(a)).
Student online privacy protection: operators of K-12 school sites, services and applicationssince 6 lines
N.C. Gen. Stat. 115C-401.2 · Read the law's page
- If you operate a website, online service, online application, or mobile application that you know is used primarily for K-12 school purposes and was designed and marketed for those purposes, do not knowingly engage in targeted advertising on it, and do not target advertising elsewhere using information you acquired through its use for K-12 school purposes (G.S. 115C-401.2(b)(1)).
- Do not knowingly use information, including persistent unique identifiers, that your site, service, or application creates or gathers to amass a profile about a student, except in furtherance of K-12 school purposes (G.S. 115C-401.2(b)(2)).
- Do not knowingly sell or rent a student's information, including covered information, except in an acquisition of your company by an entity that complies with the section for information already acquired, or as a national assessment provider that secures the express written consent of the parent or of a student at least 13 years of age, given in response to clear and conspicuous notice, solely to provide access to employment, educational scholarships or financial aid, and postsecondary educational opportunities (G.S. 115C-401.2(b)(3)).
- Disclose covered information only for the purposes the section lists, and when you disclose it to a subcontractor, bind the subcontractor by contract not to use it for any purpose other than providing the contracted service, not to disclose it to subsequent third parties, and to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices (G.S. 115C-401.2(b)(4)).
- Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information, and protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure (G.S. 115C-401.2(c)(1)).
- Delete a student's covered information within 45 days if the K-12 school or local board of education requests deletion or notifies you that services are complete, unless a student at least 13 years of age, a parent, or a guardian gives express written consent, in response to clear and conspicuous notice, to keeping it (G.S. 115C-401.2(c)(2)).
Instructional materials contracts: license for local boards of education to produce braille, large print, audio, and other accessible copiessince 2 lines
N.C. Gen. Stat. 115C-98(a) · Read the law's page
- If you sell instructional materials, including digital resources, to a North Carolina local board of education, expect the procurement contract to include a clause granting the local board the license to produce braille, large print, audiocassette tape, and other accessible copies of the materials for use in its local school administrative unit (G.S. 115C-98(a), as rewritten by S.L. 2026-41, s. 7.4(b)).
- If you are a local board of education, include in every contract for the procurement of instructional materials a clause granting you the license to produce braille, large print, audiocassette tape, and other accessible copies of the materials for use in your local school administrative unit (G.S. 115C-98(a), as rewritten by S.L. 2026-41, s. 7.4(b)).for a public body