Confidentiality of Education Records

The General Assembly approved an ACLU bill to protect the confidentiality of student school records to the same extent they are protected by federal law.

The General Assembly approved an ACLU bill to protect the confidentiality of student school records to the same extent they are protected by federal law. The legislation was prompted by an incident brought to the Affiliate’s attention where a school inappropriately released a student’s records to local police and to the parents of another student. Passage of a state version of the federal law is important because the federal statute provides no remedies to aggrieved victims.