Full Title:
Title 20 of the United States Code, Chapter 31, § 1232g: Family Educational and Privacy Rights
Excerpt:
20 U.S. Code § 1232g.Family educational and privacy rights
(a)Conditions for availability of funds to educational agencies or institutions; inspection and review of education records; specific information to be made available; procedure for access to education records; reasonableness of time for such access; hearings; written explanations by parents; definitions
(1)
(A)No funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any educational agency or institution which has a policy of denying, or which effectively prevents, the parents of students who are or have been in attendance at a school of such agency or at such institution, as the case may be, the right to inspect and review the education records of their children. If any material or document in the education record of a student includes information on more than one student, the parents of one of such students shall have the right to inspect and review only such part of such material or document as relates to such student or to be informed of the specific information contained in such part of such material. Each educational agency or institution shall establish appropriate procedures for the granting of a request by parents for access to the education records of their children within a reasonable period of time, but in no case more than forty-five days after the request has been made.
(B)No funds under any applicable program shall be made available to any State educational agency (whether or not that agency is an educational agency or institution under this section) that has a policy of denying, or effectively prevents, the parents of students the right to inspect and review the education records maintained by the State educational agency on their children who are or have been in attendance at any school of an educational agency or institution that is subject to the provisions of this section.
(C)The first sentence of subparagraph (A) shall not operate to make available to students in institutions of postsecondary education the following materials:
(i)financial records of the parents of the student or any information contained therein;
(ii)confidential letters and statements of recommendation, which were placed in the education records prior to January 1, 1975, if such letters or statements are not used for purposes other than those for which they were specifically intended;
(iii)if the student has signed a waiver of the student’s right of access under this subsection in accordance with subparagraph (D), confidential recommendations—
(I)respecting admission to any educational agency or institution,
(II)respecting an application for employment, and
(III)respecting the receipt of an honor or honorary recognition.
Source Citation:
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. 1974. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1232g