Re: Parent Access to Deceased Students' eMail

["Behun, Michael" <behun () BUFFALO EDU>]

We will give the data to the executor of the estate, for both staff and students under a fair data search policy.

http://www.itpolicies.buffalo.edu/fair_data_search/

Mike.


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy 
Mitrano
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:20 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Parent Access to Deceased Students' eMail

No university policy exists on this point, Mike, but we do have internal policy that we worked out with Student 
Academic Services.  http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/policy/dept/deceased.html

Best, Tracy


On Jul 17, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Michael Carr wrote:



How does your institution handle parental requests for access to deceased students' eMail?

Some parents would like to send notices to their son/daughter's friends about any funeral arrangements.  Others would 
like access to content (especially in cases of suicide -- for closure.)

University Council position is that the deceased student's FERPA privacy rights end with death; however, questions 
remain regarding the privacy rights of those persons/students identified in the deceased student's address book or 
eMail contents.

Thank you,

Mike



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