{"id":348568,"date":"2026-07-22T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:48:09","slug":"doe-directs-school-districts-to-address-ai-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348568\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE Directs School Districts to Address AI \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Florida Department of Education is poised to direct all school districts to incorporate rules regarding artificial intelligence in their internet safety guidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOE will discuss the proposed rule change at a workshop on Aug. 5, according to state documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department is citing Florida laws requiring adherence to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and protecting private student information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida law prevents an \u201coperator\u201d of an internet website \u201cused primarily for K-12 purposes\u201d from knowingly collecting and sharing data on students. That data includes biometric information, disabilities, socioeconomic information, food purchases, political affiliations, religious information, text messages, documents, student identifiers, search activity, photos, voice recordings or geolocation information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state Senate attempted to pass an AI Bill of Rights this year, but the measure failed after the House blocked multiple attempts to get it to Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal called in part for establishing parents\u2019 rights to control children\u2019s interactions with AI chatbots, prohibiting state agencies from contracting with AI firms tied to a \u201cforeign country of concern,\u201d and setting rules about the unauthorized use of people\u2019s names, images or likenesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida The Florida Department of Education is poised to direct all school districts&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-348568","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\/348568","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=348568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348568\/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=348568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}