{"data":{"id":"us-ca/edc-99121","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"EDC § 99121","heading":"","body":"(a) Public and private postsecondary educational institutions, and their employees and representatives, shall not require or request a student, prospective student, or student group to do any of the following:\n(1) Disclose a user name or password for accessing personal social media.\n(2) Access personal social media in the presence of the institution’s employee or representative.\n(3) Divulge any personal social media information.\n(b) A public or private postsecondary educational institution shall not suspend, expel, discipline, threaten to take any of those actions, or otherwise penalize a student, prospective student, or student group in any way for refusing to comply with a request or demand that violates this section.\n(c) This section shall not do either of the following:\n(1) Affect a public or private postsecondary educational institution’s existing rights and obligations to protect against and investigate alleged student misconduct or violations of applicable laws and regulations.\n(2) Prohibit a public or private postsecondary educational institution from taking any adverse action against a student, prospective student, or student group for any lawful reason.","path":["Education Code - EDC","TITLE 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION [66000. - 101460.]","DIVISION 14. MISCELLANEOUS [99000. - 101460.]","PART 65. MISCELLANEOUS [99000. - 99352.]","CHAPTER 2.5. Social Media Privacy [99120. - 99122.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"53315f35f12238f6775faa7dce272dbd6c673a4616c2f4f5d37023e1a59a1780","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/edc-99120","next":"us-ca/edc-99122"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}