Duty LXD-8517
Serves K-12 schools, in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico internet protection act for children and youth: filters on school, library and other public access computerssince 4 lines
Ley para la Protección de los Niños, Niñas y Jóvenes en el Uso y Manejo de la Red de Internet (Ley Núm. 267 de 2000), Arts. 4 a 7 · Read the law's page
- Applies to every public and private school of the preschool, elementary, intermediate and secondary levels, every library, and every other public or private institution that provides services through computers with internet access (Articles 3 and 4).
- Install the technological devices or filters needed on the computers available to children and minors under eighteen, to restrict and identify access to and use of pornographic material that is harmful to their physical safety, emotional health and integral development (Article 4).
- Private schools exempt from the licensing law must likewise install devices on the computers that children and minors under eighteen use, to identify and restrict the use of pornographic or obscene material (Article 5).
- The Secretary of Education must carry out the institutional policy as part of the Department of Education's technology integration plan and ensure that the computers available to the Department's students have devices that restrict access to pornographic information (Article 4).