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Oklahoma — Student DATA Act and student records (70 O.S. §§3-168, 24-114)

Two provisions of Oklahoma's school code. §3-168 is the Student Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act of 2013 — a transparency-and-governance statute addressed to the State Board of Education rather than to vendors directly. §24-114 governs how school districts store and dispose of student records and transcripts.

Applicability to EdTech

Unlike the SOPIPA-family statutes, §3-168 imposes no duties on an operator by its own force: it binds the State Board and the State Department of Education. A supplier meets it through procurement. The provision that reaches a vendor is §3-168(C)(6), which requires that any contract governing databases, assessments or instructional supports containing student or de-identified data and outsourced to a private vendor carry express provisions safeguarding privacy and security — so the obligation arrives as contract terms, and the Department cannot lawfully agree less.

Two further constraints shape what may be asked of a system: student or de-identified data may not be transferred without State Board approval (§3-168(C)(3)), and "student data" expressly excludes juvenile delinquency records, criminal records, medical and health records, Social Security numbers and biometric information unless included in a student's educational record (§3-168(B)(7)(b)).

For retention design, §24-114 sets two hard numbers — see below; they are far longer than the deletion windows the operator statutes of other states impose, because they bind the district's own recordkeeping rather than a vendor's copy.

Key obligations at a glance

State Board of Education (§3-168(C))

Scope of "student data" (§3-168(B)(7))

Records and transcripts (§24-114)

Contents

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STUDENT-DATA-ACT.md §3-168 and §24-114 in full — short title, definitions, State Board duties, rulemaking, existing collections, and the record storage and disposal rules

Licence

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