Law / United States / 
Kentucky
Parental access to student information and consent for well-being questionnaires, assessments and health screening forms given for research
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a school district or school, do not adopt policies or procedures with the intent of keeping any student information confidential from parents, although you may withhold information from a parent if a reasonably prudent person would believe, based on previous conduct and history, that disclosure would result in the child becoming a dependent child or an abused or neglected child (KRS 158.191(5)(a) and (d)).
- Before giving a child a well-being questionnaire or assessment, or a health screening form, for research purposes, give the student's parent access to review the material and obtain the parent's consent for each assessment or form; a general consent does not satisfy the requirement (KRS 158.191(6)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
A district has to let a parent review a well-being questionnaire, assessment or health screening form and obtain consent for each. The subsections require no log of consents, no retention period and no territorial hook.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A district or school may not adopt policies or procedures with the intent of keeping any student information confidential from parents. District personnel may withhold information from a parent if a reasonably prudent person would believe, based on previous conduct and history, that the disclosure would result in the child becoming a dependent child or an abused or neglected child.
Before a well-being questionnaire or assessment, or a health screening form, is given to a child for research purposes, a school district must give the student's parent access to review the material and obtain parental consent. Parental consent must be given for each assessment or form and is not a general consent. The section was created by chapter 132 of the 2023 Kentucky Acts, effective .
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