Effective January 1, 2015, Assembly Bill 1667 replaces the universal tuberculosis (TB) testing for private, parochial, public K-12 school and nursery school employees and volunteers with a TB risk assessment questionnaire. The new law states that if based on the assessment risk factors are identified, TB testing and examination is then required in order to determine that the person is free of infectious tuberculosis.

Also effective January 1, 2015, AB 1442 mandates changes to data collection practices for schools throughout California. The increased and prevalent usage of social-media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for nefarious purposes prompted school districts, county offices and charter schools to use those same platforms for data collection and monitoring. The collecting of social-media information from students and others was being done in the hopes of identifying and preventing bullying, teen suicide and school violence, among other things. However, such collection practices fuelled concerns from parents about how to protect their children’s privacy