Here are the Photo Guidelines for the Anoka-Hennepin School District (updated July 20, 2009):

Anoka-Hennepin staff, volunteers, representatives of the news media and others occasionally photograph, audiotape or videotape students in the schools. The photos, audiotape and videotape may be used in newsletters, newspapers, activity programs, yearbooks, brochures, on television, in educational videotapes, on Web pages, in podcast episodes, and other appropriate uses.

For student protection, a student's photo and name will not appear together on a school website or the Anoka-Hennepin School District website.

Parents/guardians may choose to limit the use of their child's photo. When a child enrolls in an Anoka-Hennepin School, parent/guardian(s) will be asked to select one of the following options:

• No Restriction: A child's photo will be taken and/or a child may be videotaped or audiotaped for all purposes as described in paragraph 1 above.
  
  
• Partial Restriction: A child's photo will be taken and used only for the school yearbook (individual and group photos for class and activities), the class photo and school identification records.
  
  
• Full Restriction: A child's photo will be taken but used only for internal school identification records; it will not be used in the school yearbook/class photo.

The parents'/guardians' choices will be recorded in the child's records. Parents/guardians may change their photo option choice at any time by completing a new photo option form, which is available from their school.

Although the school will take reasonable steps to prevent students with full or partial restrictions from being photographed, the school cannot guarantee that a student will not be photographed/videotaped as part of a large group, such as participating in a school assembly, walking through a school hallway, and other situations where there are large numbers of students.

If parents wish to restrict their child's name, they must make a request in writing as described in the Student Records Policy. Click here to view the Student Records Policy.