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Private colleges and universities employing student workers face the unique challenge of balancing privacy obligations and a growing push from federal labor authorities to release student information to unions. Recent...more
Can you believe it? Summer isn’t over yet, but it’s already time to start thinking about the upcoming school year. For parents of younger children, this means shopping for school supplies and new clothes, reestablishing...more
Keypoint: While the act does not include many provisions found in the more recent consumer data privacy laws, it would expand privacy notice obligations in one significant way although the applicability and scope of that...more
“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more
The United States Department of Education (DOE) recently released two new guidance documents focused on student health records to remind schools of their continued obligations to protect students’ rights under the Family...more
Keypoint: In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Washington legislators introduced legislation to enhance privacy protections for consumer health data. In early March, lawmakers in Washington state’s House...more
Higher Education CLE Webinar Series | Presented by Bricker & Eckler and the Southern Illinois University School of Law - Join us for a free webinar series in the month of June on important topics in higher education. ...more
School districts must consider the sanctity and privacy of data they maintain, as a recent decision underscores from the New York State Education Department’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer. This alert explains the...more
Two and a half years have now passed since the New York State Board of Regents put regulations implementing New York State Education Law §2-d into effect. Since then, educational institutions across the state have faced many...more
Schools, colleges and universities often will outsource to third parties any number of functions or services, such as the operation of campus bookstores and dining facilities, campus security, management of campus parking,...more
On May 13th, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, Chair of NY’s Consumer Protection Committee, reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”), a comprehensive consumer privacy law similar in kind to the California Consumer...more
As we bid farewell to 2020 and look toward the uncharted territory of 2021, it is hard not to take inventory of all that has changed in such a short period. No one at the beginning of 2020 would have predicted what transpired...more
In a rare case where the Ohio Supreme Court’s analysis primarily focused on the Ohio Student Privacy Act, R.C. 3319.321 (OSPA), the Court determined the Act’s provisions apply to the records of a former student, even when the...more
Parents, students, and educators are navigating a novel educational landscape. Some schools are relying on a virtual model that requires significant technological involvement, others have opened up their facilities for...more
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts find themselves engaging in virtual education at unprecedented levels, and with this comes many questions that may not have been considered in the past, including whether...more
The U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy Office recently provided more in-depth information regarding FERPA and virtual education in light of COVID-19 through a webinar. Much of what they discussed has already...more
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has issued guidance in the form of Frequently Asked Questions to assist school officials with how to protect student privacy under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA),...more
On March 12, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (“DOE”) issued a critical Frequently Asked Questions guidance document (and also established a resource page) for the education sector regarding compliance with the Family...more
We all recognize the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) as the federal law that prohibits the release of personally identifiable student information without the consent of a parent or eligible student. ...more
The COVID-19 virus is having an unprecedented effect on all aspects of our daily lives, and has hit the educational system especially hard with forced closures and cancellations....more
The U.S. Department of Education released some FAQs related to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and corona virus. The Department’s Student Privacy Policy Office prepared the FAQs to assist officials in...more
On March 12, 2020, the US Department of Education (ED) released FAQ guidance for all schools subject to the student privacy requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) related to implementing plans...more
Preparations are well underway for the largest peacetime mobilization of federal resources—the decennial census. As a result of their “hard to count” student populations, as well as their obligations under federal student...more
Compliance Today (February 2020) - On December 19, the U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the release of the “updated joint guidance...more
On January 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) issued a letter to Institutions of Higher Education to address issues that may arise as a result of the 2020 Census. (Note that this...more