Court Mulls Who Can Sue Under Privacy Law
Washington
The argument that students and parents should be able to go to court to enforce the 1974 federal law that guarantees the privacy of student records met with skepticism in the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
"Congress was clearly addressing the interests of parents" when it enacted the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, said Beth S. Brinkmann, the lawyer for a former college student who sued his educational institution over an unauthorized disclosure.
But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor pointed out that the privacy law outlines only an enforcement system in which the secretary of education can withhold federal aid from a school or college with a policy or practice...
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