4755-26-06. Restricting and logging access to CPI in computerized personal information systems

For personal information systems that are computer systems and contain confidential personal information, the board shall do the following:

(A) Access restrictions.

Access to confidential personal information that is kept electronically shall require a password or other authentication measure.

(B) Acquisition of a new computer system.

When the board acquires a new computer system that stores, manages, or contains confidential personal information, the board shall include a mechanism for recording specific access by employees of the board to confidential personal information in the system.

(C) Upgrading existing computer systems.

When the board modifies an existing computer system that stores, manages, or contains confidential personal information, the board shall make a determination whether the modification constitutes an upgrade. Any upgrades to a computer system shall include a mechanism for recording specific access by employees of the agency to confidential personal information in the system.

(D) Logging requirements regarding confidential personal information in existing computer systems.

(1) The board shall require employees of the board who access confidential personal information within computer systems to maintain a log that records that access.

(2) Access to confidential personal information is not required to be entered into the log under the following circumstances:

(a) The employee of the board is accessing confidential personal information for official board purposes, including research, and the access is not specifically directed toward a specifically named individual or a group of specifically named individuals.

(b) The employee of the board is accessing confidential personal information for routine office procedures and the access is not specifically directed toward a specifically named individual or group of specifically named individuals.

(c) The employee of the board comes into incidental contact with confidential personal information and the access of the information is not specifically directed toward a specifically named individual or a group of specifically named individuals.

(d) The employee of the board accesses confidential personal information about an individual based upon a request made under either of the following circumstances:

(i) The individual requests confidential personal information about himself/herself.

(ii) The individual makes a request that the board take some action on that individual's behalf and accessing the confidential personal information is required in order to consider or process that request.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph of this rule, the board may choose the form or forms of logging, whether in electronic or paper formats.

(E) Log management.

The board shall issue a policy that specifies the following:

(1) Who shall maintain the log;

(2) What information shall be captured in the log;

(3) How the log is to be stored; and

(4) How long information kept in the log is the be retained.

(5) Nothing in this rule limits the board from requiring logging in any circumstance that it deems necessary.

Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 2/4/2019 and 02/04/2024
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 1347.15
Rule Amplifies: 1347.15
Prior Effective Dates: 01/03/2011

Prior History: (R.C. 119.032 review dates: 02/04/2014 and 02/04/2019
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 1347.15
Rule Amplifies: 1347.15
Prior Effective Dates: 1/3/11)