EdLaw nat/us/state/fl/student-records/README.md

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Florida — Fla. Stat. §§1002.22 and 1002.222 (education records; collection limits)

Florida's student-records pair: parents'/students' rights in K-12 education records (§1002.22), and the collection limits (§1002.222) — including the ban on collecting biometric information of students, parents and siblings — expressly listing fingerprint/hand scans, retina or iris scans, voice prints and facial geometry scans.

Applicability to EdTech

The §1002.222(1)(a) biometric ban is the sharpest constraint in the corpus for headset hardware in Florida schools: districts may not collect eye characteristics ("a retina or iris scan" is an express example) — any eye-tracking feature must demonstrably not measure identifying physical characteristics in Florida deployments. (The TODO's HB 3 online-protections item is a separate consumer statute — add on demand.)

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EDUCATION-RECORDS.md §1002.22 and §1002.222 in full

Licence

The corpus reproduces Fla. Stat. §§ 1002.22 and 1002.222 verbatim from Online Sunshine, the Florida Legislature's official statutes site, with each section's History line.

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."

Online Sunshine pages end with "Copyright © 1995-2026 The Florida Legislature" (for example § 501.1736, read 2026-10-01). That notice can cover the site, but not the statute text, which the Legislature enacts: § 11.2421 (Online Sunshine, read 2026-10-01) provides that the compilation "prepared by the Office of Legislative Services under the provisions of s. 11.242" is "adopted and enacted as the official statute law of the state under the title of “Florida Statutes 2026”". The History lines the corpus keeps are part of that compilation.

The curator should note that the Legislature's copyright line exists; it is not read as reaching the enacted text, and no other terms on the site restrict reproduction.

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).

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