{"id":107265,"date":"2026-03-04T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=107265"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:26:12","slug":"new-university-policy-on-protecting-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/new-university-policy-on-protecting-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"New University policy on protecting minors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>March 4, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University has approved a new <em>Policy on Protecting Minors<\/em> (02.118.1) effective March 1, 2026.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><em>Policy on Protecting Minors<\/em> (02.118.1)<\/strong><br>The purpose of this policy is to provide rules, standards, guidelines, and best practices to protect the health and safety of Minors while participating in Covered Activities.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=protecting%20minors\">https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=protecting%20minors<\/a><br><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br><strong><em>All University Administrative Policies can be found at <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 4, 2026 The University has approved a new Policy on Protecting Minors (02.118.1) effective March 1, 2026.\u00a0Policy on Protecting Minors (02.118.1)The purpose of this policy is to provide rules, standards, guidelines, and best practices to protect the health and safety of Minors while participating in Covered Activities.https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=protecting%20minors\u00a0All University Administrative Policies can be found at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-107265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911±¬ΑΟ-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107266,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107265\/revisions\/107266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}