The way our school district does the photo release issues is to have an opt-out form available and handed out in the welcome back packets. Very few parents opt out so we work on the assumption that is fine to post all the pictures unless told otherwise. If it is in a classroom setting, the teacher should know if they have any opt-outs. If it is a school wide function either the child, teacher, or parent should be able to indicate if they are on the opt-out list.

We do not label the children by name on our website or our Facebook Group page; however, parents are free to tag their children if they want to.

We have been doing it this way for the two years I have been on the Executive Board and we have had no parent complaints or issues. Hope this helps!

Gary Parkes
CarmelElementary School PTA
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We have just started our own web site for our PTA, our school does not have their site anymore, and we are not clear on what we can legally put on the site. We would like to post our pictures that we take at our PTA functions and are not sure if we have to have permission from parents to post them. If so is there a form that can be downloaded and handed out that the parents sign and return to school?