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Compliance – SCOPE Act

The SCOPE Act (HB 18) is now in full effect. Lightspeed can help Texas districts comply with SCOPE requirements.

Is your Texas district SCOPE-compliant?

Texas’ Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, also known as House Bill 18 (HB 18), is aimed at protecting students online. Article III of the act is specific to K-12 districts and put various requirements on schools.

The State will enforce the SCOPE Act with fines of $10,000 per violation.

The SCOPE Act (aka HB 18) focuses on: 

Empowering parents with additional rights and tools to keep their children safe online
Providing enhanced online privacy protections for children
Placing a duty on digital service providers to limit access to harmful online content
Requiring the adoption of standards for permissible electronic devices and software applications used in school districts

Lightspeed is here to help with SCOPE compliance and other regulations.

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What Texas Schools Need to Know About the SCOPE Act

Download this easy-to-follow School District Compliance Guide to quickly get up to speed on the requirements and the Lightspeed solutions that simplify your life and enable full compliance.

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Watch the Webinar

SCOPE Compliance Made Easy

Se on-demand optagelsen af vores webinar, SCOPE Compliance Made Easy, to learn how Lightspeed solutions make it easy for you to not only meet but exceed SCOPE Act requirements.

We’ll share basics of this legislation and walk through you how Lightspeed’s portfolio of products helps your district align with the SCOPE Act’s requirements effectively and efficiently.

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Parental Empowerment with Lightspeed

Keeping parents informed and involved in edtech decisions is a key goal of the SCOPE Act.

Lightspeed's Forældreportal (included with Lyshastighedsfilter) makes it easy. Parents can see student activity and manage after-school device use, YouTube access, social media access, and more (all within safe parameters set by the district).

Deploy Lightspeed for SCOPE Compliance

SCOPE Act Article III Requirement	Lightspeed Insight	Lyshastighedsfilter	Lyshastighedsalarm
Minimize data collection on students
Ensure direct and informed parental consent
Ensure apps don't conduct mental health assessments
Ensure parents are provided critical resources
Specify periods of device deactivation
Adjustment of device use by age level
Restriction to social media sites and apps
Evaluate alternative social media apps
Notification to administrators regarding student welfare
Assign duty to receive complaints
Method to ensure operator compliance
Remove confidential, offensive, or proprietary information from devices
Adopt programs promoting parental involvement
Install filter that blocks pornographic or obscene material