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Immigration-related protections in higher education: limits on disclosing student, faculty and staff personal information, and campus notice duties
Cal. Education Code section 66093.3
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Trustees of the California State University, the governing board of a community college district or a qualifying independent institution of higher education, refrain from disclosing personal information about students, faculty and staff except with the consent of the person identified (or of a parent or guardian if the person is under 18), as state and federal privacy laws allow, for the programmatic purpose for which it was obtained, as part of a directory that omits residence addresses and course schedules and that the person has not opted out of, or in response to a judicial warrant, court order or subpoena (section 66093.3(a)(1)).
- Prohibit faculty and staff from discussing or revealing the personal information of any student, faculty or staff person, including immigration status information, unless state and federal education privacy law permits the disclosure (section 66093.3(a)(6)).
- When immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus, notify students, faculty, staff and other campus community members who work on campus, with the date and time, the location and a hyperlink to additional resources, and no personally identifiable information (section 66093.3(b)).
- The Regents of the University of California are requested, not required, to do the same (section 66093.3).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section limits disclosure of personal information and requires a campus notice of confirmed immigration enforcement. It names no log, no record to be kept, no retention period and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Education Code section 66093.3(a)(1) requires the Trustees of the California State University, the governing board of each community college district and each qualifying independent institution of higher education to refrain from disclosing personal information about students, faculty and staff, except in five listed cases, to the fullest extent consistent with state and federal law. The Regents of the University of California are requested, not required, to follow section 66093.3.
Section 66093.3(a)(6) prohibits faculty and staff from discussing or revealing the personal information of any student, faculty or staff person, including immigration status information, unless state and federal education privacy law permits the disclosure.
Section 66093.3(b) requires each campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University and each qualifying independent institution to notify students, faculty, staff and other campus community members who work on campus when immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus, in a notice that includes no personally identifiable information. The version of section 66093.3 in force was amended by chapter 124 of the Statutes of 2025 (SB 98), effective .
That version remains in effect only until . A later version of section 66093.3, added by the same act, becomes operative on .
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