Mahomet-Seymour board approves revision to IEP-recording policy, cites Illinois two-party consent and AI note-taker concerns

The board approved an update to Policy 8:70 addressing recording and documentation of individualized education program (IEP) meetings.

Mrs. Northrop explained the legal rationale and said the district's special-education attorney drafted the policy revision after concerns that recordings (including automatic AI 'note takers') could be taken out of context or circulated. She said Illinois is a two-party consent state and that legal advice indicated automatic transcription or recording devices function as recordings under state law, so they cannot be used without agreement from all participants. The revised policy clarifies that staff-prepared IEP summaries are meeting summaries, not verbatim recordings, and outlines options for parents who want their own note taker or to submit dissenting notes.

Board members asked whether the policy explicitly covers AI agents and automatic transcription; administration responded that the attorney's language was intended to encompass AI automatic note-takers and the policy will be implemented through staff training.