Sec. 10. Prohibited inquiry.
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Sec. 10. Prohibited inquiry.
(a)It is unlawful for a post-secondary school to request or require a student or his or her parent or guardian to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student's account or profile on a social networking website or to demand access in any manner to a student's account or profile on a social networking website.
(b)Nothing in this Section limits a post-secondary school's right to do the following:
(1)promulgate and maintain lawful school policies governing the use of the
post-secondary school's electronic equipment, including policies regarding Internet use, social networking website use, and electronic mail use; and
(2)monitor usage of the post-secondary school's electronic equipment and the
post-secondary school's electronic mail without requesting or requiring a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student's account or profile on a social networking website.
(c)Nothing in this Section prohibits a post-secondary school from obtaining information about a student that is in the public domain or that is otherwise obtained in compliance with this Act.
(d)This Section does not prohibit a post-secondary school from conducting an investigation or requiring a student to cooperate in an investigation if there is specific information about activity on the student's account on a social networking website that violates a school disciplinary rule or policy. In the course of an investigation, the student may be required to share the content that is reported in order to make a factual determination.