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An Act Regarding Student Privacy with Respect to Video Recordings
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA c. 223, sub-c. 11  is enacted to read:
SUBCHAPTER 11
VIDEO RECORDINGS
§ 6681. Dissemination of video recordings
An elementary or secondary school shall keep confidential a video recording in which a student is present, including a video recording taken in a bus or other means of student transportation used by the school, and may not disseminate or publish the video recording without the written permission of a parent of the student.
 
SUMMARY
This bill requires an elementary or secondary school to keep confidential a video recording in which a student is present, including a video recording taken in a bus or other means of student transportation used by the school, and prohibits the school from disseminating or publishing the video recording without the written permission of a parent of the student.