Requires boards of education and boards of trustees to adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities.*

A1323 1R

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1323

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman CODY D. MILLER

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman� VINCENT M. "VINNIE" KEARNEY

District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Morales and Assemblyman Hutchison

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires boards of education and boards of trustees to
adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence
capabilities.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Science, Innovation and
Technology Committee on February 19, 2026, with amendments.

��

An Act

concerning
1
[
video
]
1
surveillance systems
in schools and supplementing chapter 41 of Title 18A of the New Jersey
Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� a.� A board of education
of a school district
1
and
a board of trustees of a charter school or renaissance school project
1
that
utilizes a
1
[
video
]
1

surveillance system
1
,
including a video surveillance system, x-ray machine, or body scanner,
1
with
artificial intelligence capabilities shall be required to adopt a policy
regarding the use of the surveillance system.� The policy, at a minimum, shall:

���� (1) include information on the
surveillance system installed in the district
1
[
, including the benefits and
challenges of utilizing the system
]

or school
1
;

���� (2) identify the type of
information that is to be collected through the surveillance system;

���� (3) include information on how
the board plans to utilize the information obtained through the surveillance
system;

���� (4) address the board�s plan
to provide access to the information obtained through the surveillance system
1
, in
compliance with State and federal law governing student records and the
provisions of the Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement Between Education and
Law Enforcement Officials
1
;
and

���� (5) require the board to post
signage in a prominent, public place in buildings and on school grounds where
the surveillance system may be used.� The signage shall indicate that a
surveillance system with artificial intelligence capabilities is in use in the
building or on the school grounds.

���� b.� The policy adopted by the
board
1
of
education of a school district or the board of trustees of a charter school or
renaissance school project that utilizes a video surveillance system
1
shall
comply with the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2017, c.119 (C.18A:41-9).

���� c.� A board of education
1
or
board of trustees
1

required to establish a policy pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall
be required to distribute the policy to the parents and guardians of students
within the district
1
or
school
1
.

����
1
d.�
As used in this section, �artificial intelligence� means the development of
software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able
to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not
limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation
between languages, and generative artificial intelligence, which generates new
content in response to user inputs of data.
1

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year
following the date of enactment.