Be aware before you share! Learn what you can release, and who you can release it to.

Protecting the privacy rights of your disabled students is a top priority – but there are times when it’s essential to share sensitive student information with parents, faculty, administrators, police, or others. Learn how to provide information in a way that supports your students, ensures a safe campus community, and upholds your confidentiality obligations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

In this 90-minute audio conference, nationally recognized FERPA authority Dr. Richard Rainsberger gives you proactive strategies to ensure FERPA compliance while effectively managing the records and safeguarding the rights of your disabled students. You find out how to respond to requests for records on a student’s disability, what conditions must be met before you can release information to a third party, and exactly what information can be shared.You also learn:

• What to release or not release to officials at intern sites
• How to respond to parents seeking information about their child
• When FERPA allows institutions to release information to police and other officials without a student’s permission
• Why the annual FERPA notification is an important tool for informing students of their FERPA rights
• What you need to know about obeying a subpoena – and what records you can legally provide
• And much more!

This is a must-have resource for anyone who works with disabled students or their records.