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Oklahoma
Open Records Act: confidentiality of student records and the directory-information notice and redisclosure limits of public educational institutions
Okla. Stat. tit. 51, Sec. 24A.16
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Disclosure, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are an educational agency or institution that makes directory information public, give public notice of the categories of information you have designated as directory information for your students, and allow a reasonable period after the notice for a parent, or a student who is eighteen or older, to inform you that any or all of the designated information should not be released without prior consent (Okla. Stat. tit. 51, Sec. 24A.16(B)).
- If you are an educational agency or institution that is not the primary custodian of student directory information but is allowed to access it for educational purposes, do not release or sell any of it unless disclosure is authorized by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99) or by section 3-168 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes (Okla. Stat. tit. 51, Sec. 24A.16(C)).
- If you keep statistical information not identified with a particular student, or directory information, open it for inspection and copying (Okla. Stat. tit. 51, Sec. 24A.16(B)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 24A.16 lets public educational institutions keep student records confidential, opens statistical and directory information, and sets a notice duty and a redisclosure limit on directory information. It imposes no duty to keep a log or record, names no audit and gives no party a right to a record. It states no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 24A.16 of Title 51, in the Oklahoma Open Records Act, provides that public educational institutions and their employees may keep confidential individual student records, teacher lesson plans, tests and other teaching material, and personal communications concerning individual students. They may also keep confidential any contract for use of a student athlete's name, image, or likeness disclosed to a postsecondary institution under the Student Athlete Name, Image and Likeness Rights Act.
If kept, statistical information not identified with a particular student and directory information shall be open for inspection and copying.
An educational agency or institution that makes directory information public must give public notice of the categories of information it has designated as directory information and must allow a reasonable period after the notice for a parent, or a student who is eighteen or older, to inform it that any of that information should not be released without prior consent.
An educational agency or institution that is not the primary custodian of student directory information, but is allowed to access it for educational purposes, is prohibited from releasing or selling it unless disclosure is authorized by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or by section 3-168 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Section 24A.16 was added by Laws 1985, chapter 355, section 16, effective , and was most recently amended by Laws 2024, chapter 86, section 1, effective .
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