Law / United States / 
Maine
Dissemination of information: education records and personal information about students
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Prohibition, Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a public school, obtain the written approval of a student's parents before you publish, or provide for publication of, any personal information about the student on the Internet (20-A M.R.S. 6001(2)).
- If you disseminate a juvenile's education records to a criminal justice agency or to an agency responsible for the juvenile's health or welfare, do so only where the juvenile has not been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime, the records are relevant to and disseminated for creating or maintaining an individualized plan for the juvenile's rehabilitation, and an agency that is not a criminal justice agency has given you a statement describing the purpose of the dissemination (20-A M.R.S. 6001(3)).
- If you receive a juvenile's education records under subsection 3, keep them confidential, do not disseminate them further except to the court or as otherwise provided by law, and certify in writing to the school that you will not disclose them to any other party without the written consent of the juvenile or the juvenile's parent or guardian (20-A M.R.S. 6001(3)).
- Follow the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act when you disseminate education records and personally identifiable information about students (20-A M.R.S. 6001(1)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 6001 requires a public school to obtain parental approval before publishing student personal information on the Internet, limits dissemination of a juvenile's education records, and requires a recipient to certify in writing that it will not disclose them. It names no log or register that must be kept, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 6001, the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act govern the dissemination of education records and personally identifiable information about students in public schools, in private schools the Department of Education approves or recognizes as providing equivalent instruction, and in the notices and education records of students receiving equivalent instruction through home instruction.
A public school may not publish on the Internet or provide for publication on the Internet any personal information about its students without first obtaining the written approval of those students' parents. Personal information for that purpose means information that identifies a student, including the student's full name, photograph, personal biography, e-mail address, home address, date of birth, social security number and parents' names.
A school may disseminate a juvenile's education records to criminal justice agencies, or to agencies responsible for the juvenile's health or welfare, only on the conditions subsection 3 lists. Education records received under subsection 3 are confidential and may not be further disseminated except to the court or as otherwise provided by law.
The section history lists Public Law 2015, chapter 97 as the latest amendment, to subsection 1; subsections 2 and 3 take their current text from Public Law 1999, chapter 595. Public Law 2015, chapter 97 takes effect 90 days after the First Regular Session of the 127th Legislature adjourned, and the Laws of Maine give as the general effective date of that session's nonemergency laws.
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