Student Photo Usage Opt-Out
Pickens County School District uses student photos and videos to promote school and educational activities, awards, athletics, clubs, special programs, honors, and other events, including photos in the yearbook.
These images will be used on district and school websites, social media, videos, posters, promotional materials, advertisements and other online and offline media. You have our assurance that these images will be used only for official purposes and with the respect and consideration to which you and your student(s) are entitled. Please take a look at the district website and social media for examples.
This does not restrict a teacher from sending information, photos or videos related to a student to the parent or guardian.
If no photo / image opt-out documentation is on file, it will be assumed that permission for release of information has been granted.
If you DO NOT wish to grant Pickens County School District permission to use your student’s name, image, or school work in any public display or presentation, please complete the following form and return it to the Central Office at 100 D.B. Carroll Street, Jasper, GA 30143.
Open Events: Please be aware that ensuring student privacy is NOT POSSIBLE during open events such as school or district-related meetings, assemblies, activities, performances and athletics where cameras are permitted.
Parents, guardians, family members, and students are potentially taking and sharing photos and videos during these Open Events, even if not open to the general public. Images of your student could be in these photos and videos. By choosing to allow students to attend or participate in such activities and programs, parents/guardians agree to this condition. PCSD will do its best to not share photos of students with photo opt-out forms taken at open events.
Public Events: Students participating in sports, choir, band, cheerleading, theater, and other school activities, or attending such activities, that are open to the public are NOT ELIGIBLE for photo opt-out forms, as there is no way to prevent photography and videos and news media coverage of public events. PCSD has the right to use photos of these students.
Student-produced news is not considered student directory information. Parents/guardians who do not want their children included in student-produced media should not allow their children to pose for these photos or videos or participate in student media.
The district limits access to the outside news media, but it does not have control of the media. Access by news media, individuals, organizations, or television/film production companies to non-public locations and events, such as inside a classroom, will be conditioned upon agreement to honor parent/guardian preferences.