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Florida public K-12 ban on collecting, obtaining or retaining a student's or family member's biometric information, political affiliation, voting history or religious affiliation

Fla. Stat. § 1002.222(1)(a)

In force since .

A biometric privacy rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition, Biometric
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • If you are a school district, a public school or another agency or institution in Florida's public K-12 system, do not collect, obtain or retain information on the political affiliation, voting history, religious affiliation or biometric information of a student or of a parent or sibling of the student (Fla. Stat. § 1002.222(1)(a)).

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

What record it asks for

Logging duty

Section 1002.222(1)(a) bars a K-12 agency or institution from collecting, obtaining or retaining a student's biometric information and other listed information. It requires no log, no record of consent or disclosure and no audit.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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An agency or institution as defined in section 1002.22(1) may not collect, obtain or retain information on the political affiliation, voting history, religious affiliation or biometric information of a student or a parent or sibling of the student.

Biometric information means information collected from the electronic measurement or evaluation of any physical or behavioral characteristics that are attributable to a single person, such as a fingerprint or hand scan, a retina or iris scan, a voice print or a facial geometry scan.

An agency means any board, agency or other entity that provides administrative control or direction of or performs services for public elementary or secondary schools, centers or other institutions, and an institution means any public school, center, institution or other entity that is part of Florida's education system. Chapter 2014-41, Laws of Florida, which created section 1002.222, took effect on becoming law on .

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