Law / United States / 
Montana
Electronic directory photograph repository: annual opt-in notice and deletion after two years
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Disclosure, Retention, Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the trustees of a school district, send each student's parent or guardian an annual notice with information about the electronic directory photograph repository, a form to choose to have the student's photograph included for that school year, information about the use of the photograph if the student is identified as a missing child, and information about how to request its removal (section 20-7-1317(3)).
- If you are the office of public instruction, use a directory photograph in the repository only to make a current photograph available to a law enforcement authority when a student is identified as a missing child (section 20-7-1317(1)).
- Delete from the repository any directory photograph that is 2 years old or older (section 20-7-1317(4)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 20-7-1317 requires deletion of a directory photograph that is 2 years old or older, which ends a record, and an annual notice to parents. It sets no log, audit or regulator access beyond continuous access for the department of justice's missing persons clearinghouse staff. The section states no territorial test.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The office of public instruction shall create and maintain an electronic directory photograph repository to store directory photographs of individual students, and the photographs may be used for the sole purpose of making a current photograph available to a law enforcement authority when a student is identified as a missing child.
Inclusion of an individual student's directory photograph in the repository is optional, and the trustees of each school district shall send an annual notice to the parent or guardian of each student with a form to choose to have the student's photograph included in the repository for that school year. The office of public instruction shall delete from the repository any directory photograph that is 2 years old or older.
The office of public instruction shall provide continuous access to the repository to designated missing persons clearinghouse staff at the department of justice. Section 20-7-1317 was enacted by section 1 of chapter 250, Laws of 2019. Chapter 250, Laws of 2019 took effect on as to all sections.
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