TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS


Sharon VanCleave
CALENDAR
scleave@esu1.org

Matt Carley
CALENDAR
mcarley@esu1.org

TECH TRAINERS
Sue Koch, Mary Hansen, Patti Cunningham, Sue Brandow, Ed Brogie, Shelley Groene, Carol Manganaro, Lyle Van Cleave

LAUREL-CONCORD SCHOOLS
Technology Plan

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LAUREL-CONCORD PUBLIC SCHOOL
INTERNET POLICY

It shall be the policy of the Laurel-Concord Public Schools to provide a variety of educative and curriculum related opportunities through the use of telecomputing (on-line information) services to the students of the district. By adopting this policy, the district recognizes that access to the internet, data available through the internet, may be technically difficult to monitor and control. In recognition of the educative and curricular benefits of internet, it shall be the policy of this district to consider revoking the privilege of any user who misuses the internet by engaging in activities not related to the educative purposes or to the curricular offerings of the district.

User access may be prohibited and revoked as to any person who uses the internet for activities such as, but not limited to, receiving or inputting pornographic materials including child pornography as that term is defined in 18 USC Section 2256, receiving or inputting obscene materials as that term is defined in 18 USC Section 1460, receiving or inputting materials that are harmful to minors as that term is defined by the Children’s Internet Protection Act (Pub-L106-554), promoting violence, engaging in racial, gender or other slurs, receiving or transmitting information pertaining to dangerous instrumentalities such as bombs, automatic weapons, or other illicit firearms, weaponry, or explosive devices, for engaging in uses of a defamatory nature, for personal attacks on or “flaming” of another, for engaging in non-educative or non-curricular related conversations, including chat rooms, and for accessing or inputting items of a strictly entertaining or recreational nature not related to the educative purposes or the curriculum of this district.

Electronic mail for personal use will be restricted during regular school hours. Students must use a school issued e-mail account to conduct correspondence. If requested by an instructor to use e-mail during school hours, direct supervision is required.

Additionally, to the extent that it can be reasonably determined by the administration what fees, if any, have been incurred by a person for non-authorized purposes, it shall be the policy of this district to seek reimbursement and full restitution from the student or his or her parent or guardian, for the use of the internet in a manner inconsistent with this policy.

It shall be the policy of this district to employ appropriate technology protection measures including, but not limited to, filtering devices through ESU 1, filtering devices used at a local level, or the use of any other technology that now exists or may exist in the future which would be effective toward preventing or eliminating user access prohibited by this policy or other applicable policies of the district, the Children’s Internet Protection Act or other applicable statutes or regulations. It is provided, however, by this policy that nothing in this policy shall prohibit an Administrator, Supervisor, or other person authorized by the district to disable such technology protection measure as is herein described during use of the internet or any means of access to the internet to enable access for bonafide research or other lawful purpose, all as described in the Children’s Internet Protection Act.

It shall further be the policy of this district to provide a copy of this policy to each student user of the internet and to his or her parent or guardian.