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Vermont Statutes Annotated Title 16, section 584, use of social media platforms in education (Act 72 of 2025)
In force since .
An education rule binding government bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- No
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This section binds every school, school district and supervisory union, and names no duty for an online service or an app developer, except that a communication program or platform a school approves for direct communication with students must allow school officials to archive all communications and prevent their editing or deletion (16 V.S.A. § 584).
- A school, school district or supervisory union must not use social media to communicate directly with students unless the school district or independent school has approved the program or platform for that communication (§ 584(1)).
- A communication program or platform that a school district or independent school approves for direct communication with students must allow school officials to archive all communications and prevent all communications from being edited or deleted once a communication has been sent (§ 584(1)).
- A school, school district or supervisory union must not require students to use social media for out-of-school academic work, school sports, extracurricular clubs, or any other out-of-school school-sponsored activities (§ 584(2)).
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
A communication program or platform that a school district or independent school approves for direct communication with students must allow school officials to archive all communications and prevent their editing or deletion; otherwise none directly, because the duties run to schools, school districts and supervisory unions.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 584(1) requires a communication program or platform a school approves for direct communication with students to allow school officials to archive all communications and to prevent a communication from being edited or deleted once sent. It names no retention period and no one who may demand a record.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- 16 V.S.A. § 584(1)
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Section 584 of Title 16 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated prohibits schools, school districts and supervisory unions from utilizing social media for communication with students directly unless the program or platform is approved for such communication by the school district or independent school. An approved communication program or platform must allow school officials to archive all communications and prevent all communications from being edited or deleted once a communication has been sent.
Section 584 also prohibits schools, school districts and supervisory unions from requiring students to use social media for out-of-school academic work, school sports, extracurricular clubs, or any other out-of-school school-sponsored activities. Act 72 of 2025 added the section to Title 16 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, effective .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves K-12 schools.
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