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Protecting Children Online in Schools: CIPA Internet Usage Policy

Learn about how Council Rock School District implements the Children's Internet Privacy Act to filter inappropriate content on their computers. The filter generates reports of suspicious searches related to weapons, drugs, and more, helping to ensure online safety for students. Find out why monitoring online activity is crucial and how to access student accounts securely.

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Protecting Children Online in Schools: CIPA Internet Usage Policy

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  1. Mr. Sherpinsky Computer Use Council Rock School District

  2. Internet Usage • Children's Internet Privacy Act (CIPA) • Requires schools to provide an internet filter for all school district computers. • Whether these computers are operated by staff or students, the filter operates to keep out information that is deemed "inappropriate". 

  3. Practical Operations • Filter  generates a list of inappropriate searches, sites, names, and IP addresses. • Beware!!! Searching in Google otherwise - comes back in this report when it triggers a word that is considered "inappropriate" by the filter software.

  4. Practical Operations • These words are mostly characterized as relating to weapons, drugs/alcohol, suicide, pornography, obscenity, and abuse. • Every hour a filter report comes out to our IT department and is forwarded to the Principal.

  5. Practical Operations • A Suspicious Search string would look like this on the report: IP Address UserName Host Name Site Query String Time 10.30.4.228 crsd\1000031crsd\crn-w355 Google Heroin 1/25/11 10:32AM

  6. Why Does it Matter? • A query appeared in December at an elementary school that read "Why do parents abuse their children". • Alone, that string may be explainable as a search for a report or assignment - but it could be a red flag to an already concerning situation with a child.

  7. How Do You Get Access? • Highlights: • * Student login names are their eSchool ids. • * H drives are named Last Name + eSchool id. • * Student passwords are the word USAgold46

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