Law / United States / 
Colorado
Colorado postsecondary institutions: protect a student's social security number and do not use it as the primary student identifier
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Security, Prohibition
What it requires
- If you are a postsecondary institution in Colorado, assign each enrolled student a unique primary identifier (C.R.S. 23-5-127(1)).
- Take reasonable and prudent steps to ensure the privacy of a student's social security number (C.R.S. 23-5-127(2)).
- Do not use a student's social security number, or part of it, as the student's primary identifier, unless the Colorado commission on higher education has approved a phase-out plan and timetable for an institution that cannot comply because of the financial cost (C.R.S. 23-5-127(3)).
- If you are eligible for the college opportunity fund program, use the unique student identifier assigned in the elementary and secondary system as an alternative identifier for a student who graduated from or was enrolled in a Colorado high school (C.R.S. 23-5-127(4)(a)).
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What this law does
Each postsecondary institution in Colorado must assign each enrolled student a unique primary identifier. On and after , each postsecondary institution in Colorado must take reasonable and prudent steps to ensure the privacy of a student's social security number. On and after , a postsecondary institution in Colorado may not use a student's social security number or part of it as the student's primary identifier.
The Colorado commission on higher education may allow an institution to keep using a student's social security number as the primary identifier only if the institution shows that it cannot comply because of the financial cost of compliance and the commission approves a plan and timetable for phasing out that use. Section 23-5-127 was added in 2003 and took effect on .
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