EdLaw
Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA)
California state law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§22584–22585) binding operators of online services used primarily for K-12 school purposes. The model for many later state student-privacy laws: it prohibits targeted advertising, non-educational profiling, and sale or disclosure of covered information; requires reasonable security; and requires deletion of covered information at a school or district's request. The current text also interlocks with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — see the definitions in the fact document.
Applicability to EdTech
Binds the vendor directly (like COPPA, unlike FERPA) whenever a service is designed, marketed and used for California K-12 school purposes. The prohibitions on targeted advertising, profiling and sale of student data are the statutory backbone of the "signed DPA" clauses US districts request.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| OPERATOR-DUTIES.md | §§22584–22585 — definitions, prohibitions, security and deletion duties, permitted uses |
Licence
The corpus reproduces Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22584–22585 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
- Cal. Ed. Code §49073.1 — the contract-terms counterpart binding local educational agencies
- COPPA — the federal under-13 regime binding operators