Unfortunately, no filtering system is perfect. From time to time, you may find a good educational resource that is being blocked. The district strives to make sure that sites which will assist in our students education are made available to them and to you.

Please follow the steps below if you find a web site that you feel should not be blocked. It is important that you do not skip steps unless you are instructed to. If you don't follow the procedure listed below,  the site will not be removed from the district filtering.

1. Be certain the site is actually being blocked. Web sites can be unavailable for many reasons.  Perhaps the site is down or their Internet provider is having trouble.


a) Look at the "blocked" page that is displayed. If you don't see  Blocked Website  at the top of the page in large red type then it is not being blocked by the district and we can not "unblock" it for you.
b) Make sure that all sites are not showing up as blocked. Go to a site you know is not blocked such as http://www.cnn.com/ and see if it shows up as blocked. If it does contact tech support because we are having problems with our filtering server.

2. If the site is blocked, please send an email to netadmin@dce.k12.wi.us with the subject "Unblock" and include the site name or URL in the body of the email. 

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