{"id":300607,"date":"2026-06-08T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:57:18","slug":"new-requirement-for-schools-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300607\/","title":{"rendered":"New Requirement for Schools: Artificial Intelligence Safety Policy \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"810\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FDOE_Building2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education is directing school districts to add artificial intelligence use to their internet safety policies.<\/p>\n<p>All districts already have an \u201cInternet Safety\u201d policy in place, and now the\u00a0DOE is requiring districts to amend the policy to include AI.<\/p>\n<p>The rule development\u00a0workshop will be held June 22.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature failed to pass a measure imposing restrictions and requirements on AI companies this year, even though it was one of Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The measure included a parents\u2019 rights provision to control children\u2019s interactions with AI chatbots; prohibited Florida government agencies from contracting with AI firms tied to a \u201cforeign country of concern\u201d; and set rules about the unauthorized use of people\u2019s names, images or likenesses. But it didn\u2019t address how AI could or couldn\u2019t be used in schools, colleges or universities.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780959438_784_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida The Florida Department of Education is directing school districts to add artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-300607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}