This act of the Illinois Legislature (105 ILCS 85) went into effect on July 1, 2021. The intent of the bill is as follows:

Sec. 3. Legislative intent. Schools today are increasingly using a wide range of beneficial online services and other technologies to help students learn, but concerns have been raised about whether sufficient safeguards exist to protect the privacy and security of data about students when it is collected by educational technology companies. This Act is intended to ensure that student data will be protected when it is collected by educational technology companies and that the data may be used for beneficial purposes such as providing personalized learning and innovative educational technologies.

We are committed to providing students a rich array of learning resources while maintaining a safe environment to access those resources. We maintain reasonable security practices (as defined by The Learning Technology Center) to protect student data from unauthorized access, both within our network and from the Internet. We have also engaged with numerous online service providers to facilitate learning and to put students in contact with a rich array of learning resources, while insuring those providers are obligated to limit their use of the data collected to fit within the scope of SOPPA.

We participate with the Student Date Privacy Consortium (SDPC). Through this group, we have entered into Data Privacy Agreements with our online service providers (operators) that define the student data being shared and the safeguards placed on the security and use of that data. Click here for a current listing of the service providers (operators) and the status of the agreements.

Under the terms of this act, parents have rights enumerated under Section 33. Any request made to the school must be done in person at the school office or by sending an email to soppa@d1545.org.