Breitung Township Schools Internet Safety and Children's Internet Protection Act

In the United States, the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires schools and libraries to implement filters to block inappropriate Internet content. At Breitung Township Schools we use Surf Control Web Filter to block access to inappropriate material on the Internet.

SurfControl recommends that schools configure Web Filter to block all access to the following URL categories:

•  Adult/Sexually Explicit

• Alcohol & Tobacco

• Blogs

• Chat

• Criminal Activity

• Dating & Personals

• Downloads *

• Gambling

• Hacking

• Illegal Drugs

• Intimate Apparel & Swimware

• Intolerance & Hate

• Peer-to-Peer

• Phishing & Fraud

• Photo Searches

• Proxies & Translators

• Spyware

• Tasteless & Offensive

• Violence

• Weapons

• Web-based E-mail

Blocking the Proxies & Translators category is particularly important to ensure that students do not circumvent Web Filter.

For more information about CIPA, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Internet_Protection_Act