KRS 156.675: Prevention of transmission of social media and sexually explicit materials

to schools -- Administrative regulations -- Local school district policy on

student internet access -- Limitation.

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations to

prevent social media and sexually explicit material from being transmitted via any

video or computer system, software or hardware product, or internet service

managed or provided to local schools or school districts.

(2) Each local school district and school shall utilize the latest available filtering

technology to ensure that social media and sexually explicit material is not made

available to students.

(3) The Kentucky Department of Education shall make available to school districts and

schools upon request and without cost, state-of-the-art software products that enable

local districts and schools to prevent access to social media and sexually explicit

material. The department shall also notify all school districts and scho ols of the

availability of the software. Any product provided or obtained by a district or

school shall meet the requirements of subsection (2) of this section.

(4) Each local school district shall establish a policy regarding student internet access

that shall include but not be limited to parental consent for student internet use,

teacher supervision of student computer use, and auditing procedures to determine

whether education technology is being used for the purpose of accessing social

media or sexually explicit or other objectionable material.

(5) The provisions of subsections (1) to (4) of this section shall only apply to social

media that a student is not authorized by a teacher to access for an instructional

purpose.