Carr, Blackburn Target Child Safety Compliance for School Devices

Every school district-issued device should comply with internet safety policies that prevent students from accessing pornography and other obscene material, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Senate Consumer Protection Subcommittee ranking member Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wrote Monday in The Hill. Their opinion piece follows a joint letter Carr and Blackburn sent last week to the Universal Service Administrative Co., the organization that administers the FCC’s E-Rate and the Emergency Connectivity Fund programs and ensures school-issued devices comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act. “While some districts are exercising diligence with tech usage, others are taking a far too reckless approach to student safety,” they wrote in the opinion piece. Districts should be able to control access to harmful materials on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, they said.