EdLaw
Alaska — student data (research note: no dedicated statute)
Alaska has no student-data-privacy statute. It has no operator law on the SOPIPA model, no cloud-computing provider statute like Kentucky's or Rhode Island's, and no state-agency data-governance act like South Dakota's or Wyoming's. Bills to restrict the collection, storage and handling of student data were introduced in three Legislatures. Each stalled in committee, according to the Legislature's own bill records (read 2026-10-08):
| Bill | Legislature | Short title | Last status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 257 | 28th (2013–2014) | Access to Student Data | (H) EDC, then FIN — 01/21/2014 |
| SB 3 | 29th (2015–2016) | Access to Student Data | (S) EDC, then FIN — 01/21/2015 |
| HB 85 | 29th (2015–2016) | Student Data & Assessments | (H) FIN — 04/14/2015 |
| SB 235 | 31st (2019–2020) | Student Data & Assessments | (S) EDC, then FIN — 02/24/2020 |
For an Alaska district, then, the operative layer is FERPA, PPRA, the district's own contract terms, and these general Alaska statutes:
- AS 14.03.110 — Questionnaires and surveys administered in public schools. A district, principal or teacher "may not administer or permit to be administered in a school a questionnaire or survey, whether anonymous or not, that inquires into personal or private family affairs of the student not a matter of public record or subject to public observation unless written permission is obtained from the student's parent or legal guardian", with notice and review rights (AS 14.03.110). It binds the school, not a vendor. It is the provision a product delivering questionnaires inside a school would be read against.
- AS 14.03.115 — Access to school records by parent, foster parent, or guardian (AS 14.03.115).
- AS 45.48 — Alaska Personal Information Protection Act. This is the breach-notification article (AS 45.48.010–45.48.090). It binds a "covered person", defined as "a (A) person doing business; (B) governmental agency; or (C) person with more than 10 employees" (AS 45.48.090(2)). It reaches a vendor that owns or licenses personal information on a state resident.
AS 14.03.110 and AS 14.03.115 are extracted as AS 14.03.110 and 14.03.115. Articles 1 and 4 of AS 45.48 (breach of security; disposal of records) are extracted as the Alaska Personal Information Protection Act.
What was searched
- The full text of AS 14.03 (Public Schools Generally), read from the Legislature's print view of AS 14.03.010–14.03.990 on 2026-10-08. It contains no occurrence of "student data" or "personally identifiable", and no operator, vendor or service-provider provision.
- The Legislature's bill records for the four bills above.
- General web searches on 2026-10-08 for an Alaska student online personal information or student-data statute, including the 34th Legislature (2025–2026). They found no enacted bill.
Licence
This research note reproduces no statute text beyond short quotations of AS 14.03.110 and AS 45.48.090(2). It also cites bill-status data from the Alaska Legislature's own records. Both are outside copyright. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020) (slip opinion), the Supreme Court held that "officials empowered to speak with the force of law cannot be the authors of—and therefore cannot copyright—the works they create in the course of their official duties". Bill dispositions are facts.
Conditions: none. The Sources section links each record.
Related
- Alabama — student data governance and Mississippi — student data — the corpus's other "no dedicated statute" findings
- Alaska Personal Information Protection Act and AS 14.03.110 and 14.03.115 — the general Alaska statutes named above, extracted
- FERPA and PPRA — the federal layers that apply in Alaska