Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)

Letter to University of Alaska providing guidance on whether the University may disclose education records to the State's Legislative Audit Division for an auditing function. 

Letter to School and College Legal Services of California providing an option on whether 87 Op. Atty. Gen. 168 (No. 04-112) dated November 29, 2004 regarding parental access to their children's school records conflicts with FERPA.

Letter to Strayer University to regarding the findings from the investigation of a student's FERPA violation complaint.

Letter to Austin Independent School District (TX) in response to a request for technical assistance regarding disclosure of student information to a company. 

The letter to the Clark County School District regarding potential conflict between Nevada law regarding the release of certain education records to the Clark County Child Death Review Team. 

Letter to New York school districts requesting technical assistance regarding FERPA compliance. 

Letter to University of New Mexico responding to concern of a potential conflict between the FERPA and State mandatory reporting requirements laws. 

Letter to University of Illinois in response to several questions surrounding the University's practice of permanently assigning identification numbers to students, employees, certain categories of visitors, and others.

Letter to the Tennessee Department of Education regarding the applicability of FERPA to the release of student-level records to researchers.

Letter to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls regarding designating a student's ID number as directory information.