FERPA?

[truth is powerful]

Okay I read a post by someone else that provided a link to demand school records for a non custodial parent. In my divorce decree it states that custodial parents address will remain unknown. Paternal Grandparents will be provided with a contact phone number not to be disclosed to the ncp. No access will be allowed to the childrens school medical or other records in compliance with the ncp's sentencing and conviction............I asked that the no contact be restated for my daughters sake because the no contact oreder is too detailed to drag to every new girl scout leader or summer camp. No contact is based on our daughter being the victim not myself. The idea was to give him no access to our address. Does FERPA in any way over ride this? Will their bio father be able to seek info on them and have some sort of legal right to? I just do not want him to know where we are. I block out the school and address but send copies of report cards to the grandparents to keep them informed and our relationship is nuetral at best, but the kids really love their Grandma and I still foster contact with her as she has been the only supportive one in that side of my childrens family. I know I clouded this question with grandparent stuff but just trying to show what I am after is to protect our location not stop them from knowing how the children are doing.

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

My response:

Sec. 99.31 Under what conditions is prior consent not required to disclose information?

(a) An educational agency or institution may disclose personally identifiable information from an education record of a student without the consent required by Sec. 99.30 if the disclosure meets one or more of the following conditions:
. . .

8) The disclosure is to parents of a dependent student, as defined in Sec. 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

(9)(i) The disclosure is to comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena.


Find out more about FERPA, here:
http://www.unk.edu/departments/registrar/ferpa/index.htm

IAAL

[Edited by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE on 07-06-2001 at 02:43 PM]

 

[truth is powerful]

Okay I read all that.................

The site you refered me to seem to address privacy issues for secondary students. How does FERPA relate to minor children? Thank you for your prompt response. OH HEY you responded again so his entence and conviction supercedes FERPA if I read correctly. Does that mean I have to bring in the conviction and sentence to her new school or would the divorce decree be enough?

[Edited by truth is powerful on 07-06-2001 at 02:54 PM]

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

My response:

All you have to do is show the "Stay Away" order, and the Decree of Divorce, and have the school place a "block" on the child's records from release to anyone, except the "custodial parent". That's all.

IAAL