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School vs. Non-School Servers

sp, 10/15/2005, 6:18:38 PM

We're trying to get the district to move our paper's website to server space on an outside company that we're paying for. The problem is that only the district can reconfigure our website to work with the outside server. Yesterday the district technology director told us that him and another district tech person would need a password to access it "so the district isn't locked out of its own website." We set up the website in 1999 ourselves, and for the past year it has been unused. It's unnecessary for them to have a login to it and it raises the possibility of censorship, plus it's irritating that they consider it part of "their" website. Do they have any right to require us to do this?

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Alex Adams, 10/22/2005, 12:07:15 AM
If the website is being hosted on servers outside the school and being paid for by students and run by students, your tech dept. shouldn't need access to it, and they really can't force you to give it to them.

I'm not sure what you mean by "reconfigure our website to work with the outside server;" if you want their help to set up a new site you may have to give them some access.

Also, if your school is paying for the hosting, even indirectly through the paper, you may need to share the login information as well.