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Bergen County Academies
Netiquette and Computer Security Policy:
(Please note: Chris Troiano is not allowed to play games on the school computers.)
The district’s Technology
Council has developed guidelines which all students, parents and faculty must
follow. The guidelines are set forth to assure that the equal rights of all
users are protected and that all users have equal access to BERGEN
NET as a rich and important component of education.
Connection to the Internet, however,
allows students, faculty and parent groups access to information sources that
have not been pre-screened according to the Board of Education and other
educational standards. All users have the right to freedom of expression in this
public forum, but unacceptable, illegal and/or unethical behavior constitutes
just cause for disciplinary action. Disciplinary action may include suspension
or revocation of network or computer privileges, suspension or expulsion from
school, and/or legal action and prosecution by authorities.
The guidelines as set forth, are
submitted to the Board of Education and may be subject to amendment at any time
pending changes to Board of Education policy. In addition, BERGEN
NET users must be aware that they are subject to all applicable
local, state, federal and international laws regarding computer and Internet
use, software use, and copyright.
Guidelines for Use of BergenNet
- No student, faculty member or parent is
permitted to change or alter the configuration of the network. The Systems
Manager designated by the Superintendent is the only person authorized to
make such changes or alterations.
- No user may deliberately cause or be part
of any action which results in network traffic disruptions, equipment or
system performance degradation, or inoperability of the system.
- Each student, parent group and faculty
member is assigned directory space. No one is permitted to violate the space
of others.
- All work created by students, faculty and
parent groups must adhere to copyright regulations.
- Any materials created that constitute a
direct outgrowth of project and/or educational endeavors by students, parent
groups and faculty are the property of the Bergen County Technical Schools.
- Neither BERGEN
NET nor other district technology, whether in use in school or at
home, may be used for any profit-making activities (e.g. sale of tickets to
sports events) and/or any other use which does not attempt to meet the
objectives of educational learning on campus.
- Software piracy is a federal
offense punishable by heavy fines and possible jail sentence of up to five
years. Software offenses include but are not necessarily limited to making
or downloading an illegal copy of a software program and violating a site
license or other computer license.
- BERGEN
NET users may not access the network to engage in inappropriate
or unethical behavior such as researching, downloading or posting textual or
graphic material of a threatening, obscene, harassing, defamatory, or other
sexual or hostile nature.
Computer
Security
Computer security assures
appropriate educational use of the network and/or computers in the campus labs,
classrooms, library and resource areas by all staff, students and other
authorized visitors.
Guideline
for Computer Use
Only authorized software products
may be used on campus. Authorized software products are those which require
licenses and for which the district owns a valid license. NO
software owned by students may be used on campus. All students are expected to
follow the guidelines set forth below:
- Students are not permitted to
copy or move district software from the classrooms, labs or other
educational areas.
- Students are not permitted to
copy, modify or borrow software from classrooms, labs or other educational
areas.
- Students are not permitted to
play games on the district’s computer equipment.
- Appropriate Hackensack campus
personnel reserves the right to any information stored on any of the
district file servers.
Violations
of Computer Use and Security Guidelines
First Offense:
In-school suspension, and/or suspension from the use of BERGEN
NET for thirty (30) school days from the time of the offense.
Second Offense: Suspension
from the use of BERGEN NET for one school
year from the time of the offense and/or out-of-school suspension.
Third Offense: The
Principal reserves the right to recommend expulsion to the Superintendent and
Board of Education.
© 2003 Bergen County Academies
200 Hackensack Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 07601
(201)343-6000
webmaster@bergen.org
www.bergen.org
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