Bill Text: NJ A4639 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires boards of education to adopt policy on use of video surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-21 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A4639 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4639-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4639

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 25, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CODY D. MILLER

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Morales

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires boards of education to adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee on October 21, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning video surveillance systems in schools and supplementing chapter 41 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.  a.  A board of education of a school district that utilizes a video surveillance system with artificial intelligence capabilities shall be required to adopt a policy regarding the use of the surveillance system.  The policy, at a minimum, shall:

      (1) include information on the surveillance system installed in the district, including the benefits and challenges of utilizing the system;

      (2) identify the type of information that is to be collected through the surveillance system;

      (3) include information on how the board plans to utilize the information obtained through the surveillance system;

      (4) address the board's plan to provide access to the information obtained through the surveillance system; and

      (5) require the board to post signage in a prominent, public place in buildings and on school grounds where the surveillance ¹[equipment] system¹ may be used.  ¹The signage shall indicate that a surveillance system with artificial intelligence capabilities is in use in the building or on the school grounds.¹

      b.  The policy adopted by the board shall comply with the provisions of section 1 of P.L. 2017, c.119 (C.18A:41-9).

     c.  A board of education required to establish a policy pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be required to distribute the policy to the parents and guardians of students within the district.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year following the date of enactment. .