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California — Ed. Code §49076.7 (pupil SSN collection ban)
Districts, county offices of education and charter schools must not collect or solicit social security numbers (or their last four digits) of pupils or their parents/guardians unless federal law requires it — with authority for the department to prohibit further identifiers.
Applicability to EdTech
A data-catalogue constraint: a platform serving California schools should have no SSN fields in any school-facing flow — schools cannot lawfully supply them, and asking is a red flag in district reviews.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| SSN-COLLECTION-BAN.md | §49076.7 in full |
Licence
The corpus reproduces Cal. Ed. Code § 49076.7 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.
Conditions: none attach to the statute text. The corpus nonetheless names the official source in its Sources section and in each fact document's {.meta} provenance lines, and its Meta section describes what it changed (anchors added, nothing reworded).
Related
- NL UAVG art. 46 — the Dutch national-ID sibling rule
- Cal. Ed. Code §49073.1 — contract requirements