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Delaware public school video cameras: school board rules for classroom use, classroom consent and the places where cameras may not be used
Del. Code Ann. tit. 14, § 4121
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the school board of a school district, promulgate rules and regulations governing the implementation and use of video cameras in classrooms before you exercise your authority to use video cameras for surveillance on public school property (section 4121).
- Do not use a video camera for classroom surveillance under section 4121 unless the principal of the school and the teacher of the classroom consent to the surveillance (section 4121).
- Do not use video cameras at any time or at any location that would violate a student's reasonable expectation of privacy, including locker rooms, areas where students may disrobe and lavatories (section 4121).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 4121 limits where and with whose consent a school board may use video cameras and requires it to adopt rules for classroom use. It imposes no duty to keep a log or record of processing, names no audit of the school board's own practices and sets no retention period for footage.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 4121 of title 14 of the Delaware Code gives the school board of each school district authority to establish and implement programs to use video cameras for surveillance on public school property, including classrooms, halls, auditoriums, cafeterias, gymnasiums and parking areas, for the purpose of monitoring student behavior to help ensure the safety of students and teachers.
No video camera may be used for classroom surveillance under section 4121 unless the principal of the school and the teacher of the classroom consent to the surveillance. A school board must promulgate rules and regulations governing the implementation and use of video cameras in classrooms before it exercises the authority section 4121 gives it.
Video cameras may in no event be used at any time or at any location that would violate a student's reasonable expectation of privacy, including locker rooms, areas where students may disrobe and lavatories. Chapter 377 of volume 70 of the Laws of Delaware, approved , added the section to chapter 41 of title 14 of the Delaware Code.
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