Law / United States / 
Kentucky
Confidentiality of student academic records at public postsecondary institutions
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a public postsecondary education institution in Kentucky, keep student academic records confidential, do not require a student's Social Security number to identify the student, and do not release the records to any person, organization, institution, group or agency without the student's express consent except as subsections (3) to (9) of the section allow (KRS 164.283(2)).
- Make student academic records available on request for the purposes the exceptions state, including to federal, state or local law enforcement agencies, the Department of Juvenile Justice and courts on written request, to scholarship and loan grantors for their official use, and to the Council on Postsecondary Education for professional academic research (KRS 164.283(3) to (9)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
A public postsecondary institution has to keep student academic records confidential and release them only with the student's express consent or under the listed exceptions. The section requires no log of releases, no retention period and no territorial hook.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
All student academic records are confidential and may not be released by any publicly supported institution of higher education in Kentucky to any person, organization, institution, group, or agency except with the express consent of the individual student. An institution may provide the legal parents of any student under twenty-one years of age with a copy of the student's academic record.
Records must be made available on written request to any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and any court of law. The confidentiality rule applies to all academic records maintained by all public postsecondary educational institutions in Kentucky. The current text of the section took effect on .
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