Re: FERPA question

[Mike Lococo <mike.lococo () NYU EDU>]

Kathy Bergsma wrote:
> Thanks to Mike Lococo at NYU, I discovered that the 2000 FERPA amendment
> explicitly lists email as directory.
>
> http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/2000-3/070600a.html

To be clear, as with any legal question the answer can be complicated
and not to be trusted unless it has been confirmed by your institution's
office of legal counsel.  In particular, many institutions have FERPA
policies that predate the 2000 amendment which may be more restrictive,
and you may still have to engage your policy-change process to reconcile
things.

The Department of Education has a fairly readable policy letter on the
topic:
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/library/uwisc.html

The links in this thread have been lifted from a recent thread on the
IDM list covering this same topic:
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0712&L=IDM&T=0&F=&I=-3&S=&P=330

Thanks,
Mike Lococo