The Privacy Act & Vindictive Students

mikesown
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:13:01 +0000

Chedva: Interesting point about the waivers, but I don’t think it will work. The colleges can require a waiver, and they can require a student to sign it, but that only gives the schools the RIGHT to disclose the records; it doesn’t FORCE them to. More specifically, the high schools have the option of withholding the records on policy(even if the student waived his rights).

There is a very similar case going on at my school right now(my school doesn’t release disciplinary records of any kind, even if the student waives his rights) about a student who was accused of doing something(not illegal, but against the school “rules”), and was suspended(without even having due process). The school is standing by him in a sense - saying they won’t release the records to colleges.