BOARD POLICY
Internet Acceptable Use Descriptor
Code: IFBG
It is the
belief of the Webster County School System that the use of telecommunications,
including the Internet, in instructional programs is an educational strategy
which facilitates communication, innovation, resource sharing, and access to
information. Use of the Internet must be
in support of education and research and consistent with the educational
mission, goals, and objectives of the school system.
It shall be
the policy of the Webster County Board of Education that the school system
shall have in continuous operation, with respect to any computers belonging to
the school having access to the Internet:
- A qualifying “technology
protection measure,” as that term is defined in Section 1703(b)(1) of the
Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000; and
- Procedures or guidelines
developed by the superintendent, administrators and/or other appropriate
personnel which provide for monitoring the online activities of users and
the use of the chosen technology protection measure to protect against
access through such computers to visual depictions that are (i) obscene, (ii) child pornography, or (iii) harmful
to minors, as those terms are defined in Section 1703(b)(1)
and (2) of the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000. Such procedures or guidelines shall be
designed to:
i.
Provide
monitoring the online activities of users to prevent, to the extent
practicable, access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet and the
World Wide Web;
ii.
Promote
the safety and security of minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms, and
other forms of direct electronic communications.
iii.
Prevent
unauthorized access, including so-called “hacking,” and other unauthorized
activities by minors online;
iv.
Prevent
the unauthorized disclosure, use and dissemination of personal identification
information regarding minors; and
v.
Restrict
minors’ access to materials “harmful to minors,” as that term is defined in
Section 1703(b)(2) of the Children’s Internet
Protection Act of 2000.
ADOPTED: April 10, 2006
O.C.G.A. 16-09-90 Georgia
Computer Systems Protection Act
O.C.G.A. 16-09-91 Computer
Related Crime
O.C.G.A. 16-09-92 Definitions
O.C.G.A. 16-09-93 Computer
crimes defined
O.C.G.A. 16-09-94 Misleading
transmittal
US
Code
20 USC 6777 Internet Safety
47 USC
254(h) Universal
Service
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