Law / United States / Idaho

Local school boards, internet filtering required (Idaho Code section 33-132)

Idaho Code sec. 33-132

In force since 1 Jul 2025.

An education rule binding government bodies.

Audit expectation

none

What it requires

• Binds each local school district and public charter school, as a condition of receiving money from the state general fund. A vendor of digital or online library resources is reached only through the school's duty to offer such resources only if the vendor verifies compliance, and through the school's remedies against a provider that does not.
• Have internet content filters on any wireless internet access made available to children. The filters must prohibit and prevent school computers and other school owned technology-related services from sending, receiving, viewing or downloading material deemed harmful to minors under section 18-1514 of the Idaho Code.
• Filter or block internet access to obscene material, material harmful to minors, and material that depicts the sexual exploitation of a minor, as chapter 15 of title 18 of the Idaho Code defines them.
• Make the filtering solution configurable to the district's or charter school's policies on acceptable, age appropriate internet content, so that the district or charter school can manage its own filtering policies, including blocking specific categories of content and keeping its own whitelist and blacklist overrides.
• Make the filtering solution able to provide utilization and filtering reports, including the most frequently visited and blocked websites, the most frequently visited categories, the most frequently used search terms and the top authenticated users, and able to audit all changes to content filtering.
• Offer digital or online library resources to students in kindergarten through grade 12 only if the vendor or other provider verifies that all the resources will comply with the safety policy and technology protection measure standard of subsection (4) of the section.
• Offer those resources only if they have safety policies and technology protection measures that prohibit and prevent a user from sending, receiving, viewing or downloading material harmful to minors, and that filter or block access to obscene material, material harmful to minors and material that depicts the sexual exploitation of a minor.
• Have policies that set appropriate disciplinary measures for persons who violate the filtering policy, include internet safety for students in the instructional program, and inform the public that administrative procedures to enforce the policy and handle complaints are adopted and available for review at the school district or public charter school office.

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