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The School Board of Miami-Dade County Bylaws & Policies
Unless a specific policy has been amended and the date the policy was revised is noted at the bottom of that policy, the Bylaws and Policies of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools were adopted on May 11, 2011 and were in effect beginning July 1, 2011.7540.03 - STUDENT NETWORK AND INTERNET ACCEPTABLE USE AND SAFETY
This policy establishes responsible and acceptable use of the network as a tool for learning in the District. The District Network is defined as all computer resources, including software, hardware, lines and services that allow connection of District computers to other computers, whether they are within the District or external to theDistrict. This includes connection to the Internet while on school property. In this policy, Users are defined as students. No user may use the Network to take any action and/or communicate any language that the employee or student could not take or communicate in person. Prohibitions in applicable Federal, State, and/or local law or regulation, collective bargaining agreements and School Boardpolicies are included. Additionally, this policy reflects that there is no expectation of privacy in the use of e-mail or network communications when such communications occur over District provided equipment. (See Board policies concerning privacy and e-mail).

Access to the Network
The District Network gives schools the ability to share educational and research resources from around the worldwith all students. These resources include access to instructional applications, interactive collaboration between teachers, students and other users, document sharing, communications of all forms with people from around the world and libraries, museums and research facilities.

Acceptable Use
Use of the Network must support and be consistent with the educational objectives of the District. Allusers must comply with this policy and the standards of conduct established in the District Codes of Student Conduct (Elementary, Secondary, and Adult), Code of Conduct for Adult Students, Florida's Code of Ethics of the Education Profession, the District Network Security Standards and School Board policies regarding employee behavior. A. Transmission of any material in violation of local, State,and Federal law or regulation or Board policies is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted or trade secret material which the transmitter does not have the right to transmit, and material that is threatening, bullying, discriminatory, slanderous or obscene material. Obscene material is material which: 1. 2. 3. B. C. the average person, applying contemporary community standards,would find, taken as a whole, appeals solely to the prurient interest; and depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct as defined in State law (F.S. 847.001 (11)); and taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Procedures for protesting instructional materials and educational media as they are accessed through the Internet aregoverned by Policy 2510. Use of the Internet for political activities is prohibited.

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Use of the Network for product advertisement, commercial activities, political campaigning or solicitation is prohibited. The District shall use anInternet Content Filter to prevent User access to prohibited material. Users of the District Network are charged with notice that besides obscene material, there are other potentially objectionable materials available on the Internet, including sites with adult content, nudity, and gambling, as well as sites advocating violence and illegal activities. No content filter will ever be 100%...