Early Childhood

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to disclosures when a student is transferring schools and that, under FERPA, a school has the discretion to disclose any information from a student's education records to a school where the student seeks or intends to enroll.

The U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released updated joint guidance addressing the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to records maintained on students. 

Letter to a Michigan state legislator on the applicability of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to state reporting requirements concerning students’ immunization records.

Letter of finding regarding the applicability of FERPA and attorney client privilege.

The Data Destruction Document is a best practices guide on properly destroying sensitive student data after it is no longer needed.  It details the life cycle of data and discusses various legal requirements relating to the destruction of data under FERPA, and examines a variety of methods for properly destroying data.  The guide also discusses best practices for data destruction and provides some real-world examples of how to implement it within your organization.

This guidance document consists of thirty-seven commonly asked questions about schools’ and school districts’ responsibilities under FERPA relating to disclosures of student information to school resource officers (SROs), law enforcement units and others, and seeks to explain and clarify how FERPA protects student privacy while ensuring the health and safety of students and others in the school community. SRO LEU LEO

Sample Requirements for the LEA Website Student Privacy Transparency Reviews.

Letter explaining that FERPA is not intended to interfere with what are considered to be normal classroom activities and that FERPA does not prohibit students to grade work assignments of another student or from calling out that grade in class.

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to the access of transcript data to a student.

Letter to School & College Legal Services of California in regards to a question about whether FERPA permits a school district to disclose personally identifiable information (PII) from a student’s “health records, such as immunizations data,” to county or State health officials without parental consent.