EdLaw nat/us/state/ca/ed-code-49073-6/README.md

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California — Ed. Code §49073.6 (social media monitoring of pupils)

The AB 1442 regime: before a school district gathers or maintains pupil information obtained from social media, it must adopt the program in a public meeting, notify pupils and parents, provide access/correction, destroy the information when the pupil turns 18 or leaves, and — the vendor hook — impose the same duties by contract on any third party hired to gather the information, with destruction on contract termination.

Applicability to EdTech

Directly relevant only if a product ever monitors or collects pupils' social-media content for a California district; the third-party contract requirements in subdivision (b)–(c) then apply verbatim. Also useful as the statutory definition of "social media" in the California education context (SOCIAL-MEDIA-MONITORING.md).

Contents

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SOCIAL-MEDIA-MONITORING.md §49073.6 in full

Licence

The corpus reproduces Cal. Ed. Code § 49073.6 verbatim from California Legislative Information, the Legislature's own site.

Statute text enacted by a state legislature is outside copyright under the government edicts doctrine. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020) (slip opinion, read 2026-10-01), the Supreme Court held: "Under what has been dubbed the government edicts doctrine, 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." It applied the doctrine to an arm of the legislature as well as to legislators: "Because Georgia’s annotations are authored by an arm of the legislature in the course of its legislative duties, the government edicts doctrine puts them outside the reach of copyright protection."

The section pages on California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, read 2026-10-01) carry no copyright notice and no terms of use.

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