Providence Englewood and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

To be in accordance with the Children’s Internet Safety Act (CIPA) requirements:

• Access by minors to inappropriate materials
• Safety and security of minors when using e-mail,
  chat rooms, and other electronic communications
• Unauthorized access by minors online
• Unauthorized disclosure of personal information regarding minors
• Measures to restrict minor’s access to materials harmful to minors

Providence Englewood Charter School has taken these measures to address student internet safety.

• Chromebooks are lent by Providence Englewood for the students’ use.
• Students are given unique usernames and passwords in order to log in to a Chromebook.
• Chromebooks lent by PECS to the students are set to only open when using a PECS domain (@pecs.k12.il.us) username.
• Once logged in with their PECS username and password PECS can block the Chromebook’s access to inappropriate websites.
• Chromebooks logged in using a PECS username and password are set to safe browsing.
• Chromebooks have antivirus built-in.
• Our network is protected by Sophos antivirus.
• Our network has a firewall with a strong web filtering module to block objectionable material.
• Providence Englewood employs an application called “GoGuardian” to monitor what the Students can access.
• GoGuardian is used to further filter objectionable sites and searches, track Chromebooks, and disable users.
• Student browsing history cannot be erased.