INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTABLE USE
The South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District shall make available to students and employees
such information technology facilities as it decides are appropriate to further its educational mission. South Euclid-Lyndhurst
City Schools’ Information Technology Facilities may consist of numerous components including computer hardware, multimedia
hardware, video equipment, computer software, documentation, communications support, on-line account administration, support
services, Internet access and instructional materials. This regulation applies
whenever one or more individuals utilize the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools’ Information Technology Facilities
alone or in combination with other information technology facilities.
Users may only utilize the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools’ Information Technology Facilities for
the following acceptable uses:
1.
Learning activities facilitating School instructional objectives.
2.
Research supporting educational or research programs sponsored by
the School.
3.
Communications between faculty, staff, students and others outside the School District containing messages
or information the content of which is not in conflict with these regulations.
Users may not utilize the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools’ Information Technology Facilities for unacceptable
uses specifically including, but not limited to, the following:
1. Infringing on the rights or liberties of others.
2. Illegal or criminal use of any kind.
3. Utilization involving communications, materials, information,
data or images reasonably regarded as obscene, pornographic, threatening, abusive, harassing, discriminatory, or in violation
or consistent with any other School policy.
4. Accessing, viewing, printing storing, transmitting, disseminating
or selling any information protected by law or subject to privilege or an expectation of privacy.
5. Causing or permitting materials protected by copyright, trademark,
service mark, trade name, trade secret, confidentiality or proprietary data, or communications of another, to be uploaded
to a computer or information system, published, broadcast, or in any way disseminated without authorization from the owner.
6. Damaging or altering the operation, function, content or design
of the School’s Information Technology Facility.
7. Granting access to the School’s Information Technology
Facilities to individuals not authorized by the School, either by intentional conduct such as disclosing passwords, or by
unintentional conduct such as failing to log off.
8. Commercial, profit-motivated, or partisan political use not
related to Board programs.
9. *The student's use of personal equipment to access inappropriate information and/or to act inappropriately
while at school, and circumventing the internet filters.
On-line services provide access to countless computer networks, some of which contain material which may be deemed
offensive or inappropriate. The School District is not
responsible for the content of any materials students may access through on-line services.
The School does not condone accessing offensive or inappropriate materials and shall take reasonable steps to monitor
School Information Technology Facilities usage to prevent usage inconsistent with these regulations.
The School District retains the right to monitor any and all usage of its Information
Technology Facilities. This right explicitly includes the right to read electronic communications, if any. No user should have any expectation of privacy regarding the use of the School Information Technology Facilities.
The Superintendent is authorized to adopt such rules as are appropriate to implement these regulations, including
requiring students and their parents to sign an acknowledgment that they have received a copy, read and understand these regulations
and agree to their terms. Copies are available for review and are located in
the main office. All users of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools’ Information Technology Facilities shall be given
notice of this policy.
Authority: Electronic
Communication Privacy Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. xx 2510-2521
