ME LD1395

Digital or online library databases offered to K-12 students must prevent users from sending, receiving, viewing, or downloading child pornography, obscene matter, or materials depicting sexual exploitation of minors

Schools must withhold payment from library database providers that fail to meet these content filtering requirements, and failure to verify compliance in a timely manner constitutes breach of contract

Removes the existing exemption that allowed public schools to distribute or exhibit obscene matter to minors for noncommercial, purely educational purposes

Public and private schools may offer curriculum instruction to students on preventing and recognizing signs of sexual abuse, child exploitation, and human trafficking

Public and private schools may provide training to school employees on recognizing signs of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of minors, and human trafficking