ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Students are expected to act in a responsible, ethical and legal manner in accordance with district policy, accepted rules of network etiquette, and federal and State law. Specifically, the following uses are prohibited:

  1. Use of the network to facilitate illegal activity.
  2. Use of the network for commercial or for-profit purposes.
  3. Use of the network for non-work or non-school related work.
  4. Use of the network for product advertisement or political lobbying.
  5. Use of the network for hate mail, discriminatory remarks, and offensive or inflammatory communication.
  6. Unauthorized or illegal installation, distribution, reproduction, or use of copyrighted materials.
  7. Use of the network to access obscene or pornographic material.
  8. Use of inappropriate language or profanity on the network.
  9. Use of the network to transmit material likely to be offensive or objectionable to recipients.
  10. Use of the network to intentionally obtain or modify files, passwords, and data belonging to other users.
  11. Impersonation of another user, anonymity, and pseudonyms.
  12. Use of the network facilities for fraudulent copying, communications, or modification of materials in violation of copyright laws.
  13. Loading or use of unauthorized games, programs, files, or other electronic media.
  14. Use of the network to disrupt the work of other users.
  15. Destruction, modification, or abuse of network hardware and software.
  16. Quoting personal communications in a public forum without the original author’s prior consent.
  17. Use of the network for e-mail.
  18. NO outside disks will be brought into any District networked computer.

User accounts are considered the property of the District. The School District expressly reserves the right at any time to review the subject, content and appropriateness of electronic communications or other computer files and remove them if warranted, reporting any violation to the school administration or law enforcement officials.

Persons, using the District network, shall have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in the content of electronic communications or other computer files sent and received on the District network.

Violating the Acceptable Use Policy may result in:

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