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Kentucky Revised Statutes section 156.675, prevention of transmission of social media and sexually explicit materials to schools, and local school district policy on student internet access
In force since .
An education rule binding government bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- No
- Audit expectation
- continuous
- Who audits it
- Self
What it requires
- This section binds the Kentucky Board of Education, the Kentucky Department of Education, each local school district and each school, and names no duty for an online service or an app developer: the regulations the Board must promulgate are to prevent social media and sexually explicit material from being transmitted via any video or computer system, software or hardware product, or internet service managed or provided to local schools or school districts (KRS 156.675(1)).
- If you are the Kentucky Board of Education, promulgate administrative regulations to prevent social media and sexually explicit material from being transmitted via any video or computer system, software or hardware product, or internet service managed or provided to local schools or school districts (subsection (1)).
- Each local school district and school must utilize the latest available filtering technology to ensure that social media and sexually explicit material is not made available to students (subsection (2)).
- If you are the Kentucky Department of Education, make state-of-the-art software products that enable local districts and schools to prevent access to social media and sexually explicit material available to school districts and schools upon request and without cost, and notify all school districts and schools that the software is available; any product a district or school provides or obtains must meet the requirements of subsection (2) (subsection (3)).
- Each local school district must establish a policy regarding student internet access that includes, but is not limited to, parental consent for student internet use, teacher supervision of student computer use, and auditing procedures to determine whether education technology is being used for the purpose of accessing social media or sexually explicit or other objectionable material (subsection (4)).
- Subsections (1) to (4) apply only to social media that a student is not authorized by a teacher to access for an instructional purpose (subsection (5)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
None stated. The section names no regulator, creates no enforcement power and sets no penalty.
What it reaches
Covered services
None directly: the duties run to the Kentucky Board of Education, the Kentucky Department of Education, local school districts and schools, which must filter social media and sexually explicit material from the video and computer systems, software, hardware and internet services provided to schools.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Subsection (4) requires each local school district's student internet access policy to include auditing procedures to determine whether education technology is being used for the purpose of accessing social media or sexually explicit or other objectionable material. The section names no log, no retention period and no one who may demand a report.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- KRS 156.675(4)
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Section 156.675 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes requires each local school district and school to utilize the latest available filtering technology to ensure that social media and sexually explicit material is not made available to students.
The Kentucky Board of Education must promulgate administrative regulations to prevent social media and sexually explicit material from being transmitted via any video or computer system, software or hardware product, or internet service managed or provided to local schools or school districts.
The Kentucky Department of Education must make available to school districts and schools upon request and without cost state-of-the-art software products that enable them to prevent access to social media and sexually explicit material.
Each local school district must establish a policy regarding student internet access that includes, but is not limited to, parental consent for student internet use, teacher supervision of student computer use, and auditing procedures to determine whether education technology is being used for the purpose of accessing social media or sexually explicit or other objectionable material.
The provisions of subsections (1) to (4) apply only to social media that a student is not authorized by a teacher to access for an instructional purpose. The current text took effect , under an amendment made by chapter 90 of the 2025 Kentucky Acts. Kentucky created the section in 1998, effective .
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