Avilés on parental consent forms and FERPA exceptions

The DOE's data privacy and security policy states that parents have the right to require written consent before personal identifying information in your child's education record is disclosed.

The policy also states that in some cases, the law allows disclosure without parental consent.

I wanted to ask if you could clarify how a parent can exercise the right to require written consent before their child's education record is disclosed.

And is there a specific form that parents must submit to require this consent?

So we have forms on our website that are designed for parents to provide consent for disclosure of education records.

They're not required to use those forms as long as we have the consent in writing from the parent and it meets all the requirements under the requirements.

FERPA, meaning that it identifies the information to be disclosed, who it's going to be disclosed to, the purpose of disclosure, and it's signed in data, we'll accept that.

But we do have a ready-made form available for parents.

And then the first part of your question was, oh, for just requiring consent in general.

The general rule is that consent is required before any student information is disclosed.

There are, however, a number of exceptions to that general rule under FERPA.

For example, if you're disclosing student information to other school officials, it could be other employees within the school.

That does not require consent as long as that disclosure is being made to another school official who has legitimate educational interest in receiving that information.

That's just one of the many examples.

I mean, there's a health and safety emergency exception, for example, if a student has a medical emergency, needs to be taken to the hospital.

We don't need to get consent from the parent before we start disclosing that information to, you know, medical technicians who are going to be treating the student.

Okay.

Thank you.