The Board allows the practice of contracting with commercial photographers to take student pictures and make them available to parent(s)/guardian(s) as a part of the total school program.
The school may contract with commercial photographers to take pictures of students for specific purposes such as graduation pictures, yearbooks, class pictures, student records, or identification cards.
No student, however, shall be required to have his/her picture taken by school contracted commercial photographers and shall not be pressured for the purchase of photographs. Students may substitute photographs taken by photographers of their choice to be used in yearbooks or for official school records. The school may establish reasonable specifications for such pictures.
The Principal shall be authorized to select and contract with commercial firms to provide the photographing service. Good business practices and Board purchasing guidelines prevail in such selection.
Permission to shoot close-up pictures of students via regular film or digital imaging, or to videotape students participating in school sports or other school-related activities, and to identify those students, may be granted to the media (newspapers and television stations) only with parent/guardian approval for students less than 18 years of age. Parent/Guardian approval also shall be required before pictures of students may be used, or students identified, in non-school publications with the exception of photographs or video images taken by news media in the normal course of news coverage of District activities.
The Superintendent shall establish guidelines for implementing this policy.