Early Childhood

As part of its enforcement activities under FERPA, the Student Privacy Policy Office issues a variety of letters to include letters that explain why an investigation will not be initiated as well as that detail our findings after conducting an investigation. While we have identified those letters of more significance and posted them under “Letters of Importance,” we also want to make available the full collection of findings letters we issued in this archive. The attached archive, in ZIP file format, contains redacted letters from November to December of 2009.

As part of its enforcement activities under FERPA, the Student Privacy Policy Office issues a variety of letters to include letters that explain why an investigation will not be initiated as well as that detail our findings after conducting an investigation. While we have identified those letters of more significance and posted them under “Letters of Importance,” we also want to make available the full collection of findings letters we issued in this archive. The attached archive, in ZIP file format, contains redacted letters from the 2009 calendar year.

The purpose of this guidance is to answer questions that school officials hay have had concerning the disclosure of personally identifiable information from students’ education records to outside entities when addressing the H1N1 flu outbreak.

Letter to North Dakota State University regarding the applicability of FERPA to instructors conducting research using students' education records.

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to college students sharing campus mail boxes.

Letter explaining that a college or university may disclose the top 10% of students to Phi Kappa Phi if the school has properly designated honors or awards received as a directory information item and those students have not opted out of the disclosure of directory information.

Letter of finding making a determination that a student's education records were also directly related to other students who were involved in same incident of misconduct.

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to education records on deceased students and would consider it a reasonable policy for schools to release the records of students who would be at least 100 years old as of the date of the release to the State archives for public use.

Letter providing assistance in regard to a  proposed State law addressing enforcement of local truancy ordinances and the juvenile justice system exception in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to disclosures of information regarding truancy violations created by school law enforcement units and by personal observation.