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Maine
Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System: limits on identifiable student information
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Maine Department of Education, do not make public through the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System any information that could identify an individual or the individual's employer (20-A M.R.S. 6005(2)).
- Manage education records in the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System in compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20-A M.R.S. 6005(2)).
- Release personally identifiable information in an education record that is not directory information to other State Government agencies, including postsecondary institutions, only under a signed memorandum of understanding requiring compliance with the federal Act (20-A M.R.S. 6005(2)).
- Obtain placement information through the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System only to evaluate and improve education programs or to conduct research to improve education services (20-A M.R.S. 6005(2)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 6005 bars the system from making identifying information public and conditions release of identifiable education records on a signed memorandum of understanding. It names no log or register that must be kept, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
In title 20-A the department is the Department of Education. The department must develop and maintain the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System, a continuing program of information management that compiles, maintains and disseminates information on the educational histories, placement, employment and other measures of success of participants in state educational programs. The system may not make public any information that could identify an individual or the individual's employer.
The department must ensure that the purpose of obtaining placement information is to evaluate and improve education programs or to conduct research to improve education services. The department must also implement an automated system that matches former participants in state educational and training programs with the files of state and federal agencies that maintain educational, employment and United States armed services records.
Education records in the system must be managed in compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Personally identifiable information in an education record that is not directory information may be released to other agencies within State Government, including postsecondary institutions, only under a signed memorandum of understanding requiring compliance with the federal Act.
Public Law 2011, chapter 223 provides that it takes effect 90 days after the First Regular Session of the 125th Legislature adjourned unless otherwise indicated. Subsection 2 dates from Public Law 2009, chapter 448, and Public Law 2011, chapter 223 amended the opening paragraph and subsection 1 and repealed subsection 3, on notification and consent.
The Laws of Maine give as the general effective date of nonemergency laws passed at the First Regular Session of the 125th Legislature.
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