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Maryland
Student Data Privacy - Protections, Digital Tools, and Student Data Privacy Council
Officially Student data privacy: county board list of digital tools, Department database and the Student Data Privacy Council (Chapters 163 and 164 of 2022)
Chapter 164 of the Acts of 2022 (House Bill 769), Educ. § 4-131(p)
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Reporting, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a county board of education, submit to the State Department of Education on or before July 1 of each year a list of the approved digital tools, the digital tools known to be used by educators and the digital tools not authorized by the county board, for the immediately preceding school year (Educ. 4-131(p)(1), added by Chapter 164 of the Acts of 2022).
- If you are the State Department of Education, publish on or before September 1 of each year an online database of the digital tools each county board reported (Educ. 4-131(p)(2), added by Chapter 164 of the Acts of 2022).
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Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The county board submits an annual list of digital tools to the State Department of Education, which publishes a database of them. The list is a report on which tools are approved, in use or unauthorized, and no log, register or consent record is required.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Chapter 164 of the Acts of 2022 (House Bill 769) added subsection (p) to Education Article section 4-131. Chapter 163 of the Acts of 2022 (Senate Bill 325) also added subsection (p) to Education Article section 4-131.
Each county board of education must submit to the State Department of Education on or before July 1 of each year a list of its approved digital tools, the digital tools known to be used by educators and the digital tools not authorized by the county board, for the immediately preceding school year. The State Department of Education must publish on or before September 1 of each year an online database of the digital tools the county boards reported.
Section 2 of the Act establishes the Student Data Privacy Council, which the State Superintendent of Schools or the Superintendent’s designee chairs. The Council must study the development and implementation of the Student Data Privacy Act of 2015 and review similar laws and best practices in other states. The Council was to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before on the implementation of section 4-131(p) of the Education Article. Section 2 of the Act is abrogated at the end of .
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