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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico internet protection act for children and youth: filters on school, library and other public access computers
In force since .
An education rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to every public and private school of the preschool, elementary, intermediate and secondary levels, every library, and every other public or private institution that provides services through computers with internet access (Articles 3 and 4).
- Install the technological devices or filters needed on the computers available to children and minors under eighteen, to restrict and identify access to and use of pornographic material that is harmful to their physical safety, emotional health and integral development (Article 4).
- Private schools exempt from the licensing law must likewise install devices on the computers that children and minors under eighteen use, to identify and restrict the use of pornographic or obscene material (Article 5).
- The Secretary of Education must carry out the institutional policy as part of the Department of Education's technology integration plan and ensure that the computers available to the Department's students have devices that restrict access to pornographic information (Article 4).
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Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A natural or legal person who infringes the Act commits a less serious offense (delito menos grave), punishable by a fine of up to 3,000 dollars per violation, imprisonment of up to six months, or both, at the court's discretion (Article 6).
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Secretary of Justice may bring an injunction or other civil proceeding to cancel or revoke a license, permit or authorization of a covered institution (Article 7); the Secretary of Education carries out the policy for the public school system (Article 4).
What it reaches
Covered services
Public and private schools of the preschool, elementary, intermediate and secondary levels, libraries, and any other public or private institution that provides services through computers with internet access, as to the computers available to children and minors under eighteen.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Article 4 asks for filtering devices on computers and states no age check, no log and no retention period.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Act is Law 267 of , as amended.
Every public and private school of the preschool, elementary, intermediate and secondary levels, every library, and every other public or private institution that provides services through computers with internet access must install the technological devices or filters needed on the computers available to children and minors under eighteen, to restrict and identify access to and use of pornographic material that is harmful to their physical safety, emotional health and integral development.
Private schools exempt from the licensing law carry the same duty to install devices on the computers that children and minors under eighteen use. The Secretary of Education must carry out the institutional policy as part of the Department of Education's technology integration plan and must ensure that the computers available to the Department's students have devices that restrict access to pornographic information.
A natural or legal person who infringes the Act commits a less serious offense (delito menos grave), punishable by a fine of up to 3,000 dollars per violation, imprisonment of up to six months, or both, at the court's discretion.
The Secretary of Justice may bring an injunction or other civil proceeding to cancel or revoke a license, permit or authorization to establish and operate public and private educational institutions and libraries, or the certificate of incorporation of a corporation that provides these services, when the Act is infringed. The Act took effect on its approval, with a period of 180 days for the covered institutions to put the systems in place.
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