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Minnesota
Minnesota Statutes section 125B.15, internet access for students: filtering of obscene material, child pornography and material harmful to minors on school computers
In force.
An education rule binding government bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- No
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This section binds each school site, meaning an education site as defined in section 123B.04, subdivision 1, or a charter school under chapter 124E, and each school district, and names no duty for an online service or an app developer (Minn. Stat. 125B.15).
- Equip all computers at a school site with access to the Internet available for student use to restrict, including by use of available software filtering technology or other effective methods, all student access to material that is reasonably believed to be obscene or child pornography or material harmful to minors under federal or state law; a school site is not required to purchase filtering technology if it would incur more than incidental expense in making the purchase (paragraphs (a) and (b)).
- A school district must prohibit, including through use of available software filtering technology or other effective methods, adult access to material that under federal or state law is reasonably believed to be obscene or child pornography (paragraph (c)).
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 school sites (education sites and charter schools) and school districts, which must filter student access, and block adult access, to obscene material, child pornography and, for students, material harmful to minors on school computers with Internet access.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section requires school computers to be equipped to restrict access and a school district to prohibit adult access, and requires no log, no audit and no retention period.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 125B.15 of the Minnesota Statutes requires all computers at a school site with access to the Internet available for student use to be equipped to restrict, including by use of available software filtering technology or other effective methods, all student access to material that is reasonably believed to be obscene or child pornography or material harmful to minors under federal or state law.
A school site is not required to purchase filtering technology if the school site would incur more than incidental expense in making the purchase. A school district must prohibit, including through use of available software filtering technology or other effective methods, adult access to material that under federal or state law is reasonably believed to be obscene or child pornography.
A school district, its agents or employees are immune from liability for failure to comply with the section if they have made a good faith effort to comply with its requirements. A school site means an education site as defined in section 123B.04, subdivision 1, or a charter school under chapter 124E. Before the 2025 amendment, the adult-access prohibition in paragraph (c) bound only a school district receiving technology revenue under section 125B.26. Minnesota added the section in 2000.
When LexLint raises it
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