{"id":267573,"date":"2026-06-08T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:05:13","slug":"new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy\">New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy\">https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 13:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wgcu.org\">www.wgcu.org<\/a><\/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 &#8220;Internet Safety&#8221; policy in place, and now the DOE is requiring districts to amend the policy to include AI.<\/p>\n<p>The rule development workshop 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&#8217; priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The measure included a parents&#8217; 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d369abd\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2308x1212+0+43\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F42%2F05%2F40f427cc4e1a991dd102274b83c7%2Fai-image2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267577,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267573\/revisions\/267577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}