BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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120 (Mark Stone)
As Introduced January 19, 2016
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Privacy |9-0 |Chau, Baker, | |
| | |Calderon, Cooper, | |
| | |Dababneh, Gatto, | |
| | |Gordon, Low, Olsen | |
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SUMMARY: Declares the Legislature's support for the development
of safe and secure data sharing between public education, social
service, and research entities through the Silicon Valley
Regional Data Trust (SVRDT) as it pertains to at-risk, foster,
homeless, and justice-involved children and youth and their
families. Specifically, this bill:
1)Recognizes that children in California would benefit from a
reliable and secure data-sharing environment that would assist
social service providers and public education institutions in
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best responding to the personal circumstances and needs of
students and families and would allow researchers using
aggregate data to better support these efforts.
2)Recognizes that the mission of the SVRDT is to serve as a
pilot demonstration site for addressing the needs of diverse
communities using a comprehensive data-informed approach that
provides quality services and promotes a healthy, safe, and
prosperous community while safeguarding sensitive personal
data.
3)Recognizes that improved collaborations between agencies can
help address the complex challenges of serving vulnerable
California children and their families.
4)Recognizes that the County of Santa Clara is currently
participating in the Foster Vision Project with the Santa
Clara County Office of Education to share data about youth
between schools and the county in the interest of improving
services to foster and juvenile-justice-involved youth with
appropriate protections to safeguard sensitive data.
5)Recognizes that the establishment of information sharing
agreements through a tri-county regional data trust utilizing
the Santa Clara County Office of Education Data Zone as the
hub in partnership with the University of California, Santa
Cruz, will help ensure that data systems are interoperable
within and across agencies and sectors by adopting common data
standards, definitions, and language to best serve the
children in those counties.
6)Recognizes that, in order to safeguard the privacy of
California children and families, it is essential that the
data trust strictly adhere to existing state and federal law
requiring the protection of personal information and data
pertaining to students and at-risk youth and follow data
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security industry best practices in the interest of protecting
California's most vulnerable youth while allowing appropriate
data access and sharing.
7)Declares that the Legislature supports the development of safe
and secure data sharing between public education, social
service, and research entities through the SVRDT as it
pertains specifically to at-risk, foster, homeless, and
justice-involved children and youth and their families, in
order to better serve, protect, and improve the futures of
these Californians.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose of this bill. This bill is intended to express the
Legislature's support for a regional data-sharing pilot
project designed to improve educational and social service
outcomes for youths in the foster and criminal justice
systems. This bill is sponsored by the SVRDT.
2)The Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust. The SVRDT's stated
mission is to apply "advanced analytics to a regional
multi-agency dataset, balancing ethical, privacy, and social
policies, to improve services and educational outcomes
especially for children of poverty."
SVRDT supports data sharing among county agencies, school
districts, non-profits and educational technology firms to
inform regional policy, practice, and research. It intends to
use the shared data to engage in mining and analysis that will
facilitate personalization of learning plans and improvement
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of service provision to children of poverty.
SVRDT is a pilot project at this stage and has not yet begun
operations. Its Web site does not provide a target start-up
date.
By its own account, SVRDT has not yet developed its guidelines
for data privacy, saying that it "will develop guidelines for
the Regional Data Trust that define and govern what is
allowable under privacy regulations such as [Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act] FERPA, [Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act] HIPAA, and [Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act] COPPA and will develop
datasharing agreements that accordingly protect students'
privacy and confidentiality." Nevertheless, student data
would remain protected by existing state and federal law once
the program begins operation.
Support
Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust (sponsor)
Opposition
None on file.
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Analysis Prepared by:
Hank Dempsey / P. & C.P. / (916) 319-2200 FN:
0002711