Law / United States / 
Tennessee
Student data governance: parents and guardians may inspect their children's education records and the LEA model records policy
In force since .
A data subject rights rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Data subject rights, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a local education agency, let parents and guardians inspect and review their children's education records maintained by the school (section 49-1-704(a)).
- Provide parents or guardians with a copy of their children's educational records upon request (section 49-1-704(c)).
- If you are the department of education, develop a model student records policy for LEAs that requires an LEA to annually notify parents and guardians of their right to request student information, ensure security when providing student data to them, provide student data only to authorized individuals, set the timeframe within which record requests must be provided, and consider a plan to let parents and guardians view online, download and transmit their children's data (section 49-1-704(d)(1)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 49-1-704 gives parents access to education records and requires a model records policy. It names no log or record of requests that an LEA must keep, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 49-1-704 gives parents and guardians the right to inspect and review their children's education records maintained by the school. Section 49-1-704 gives parents and guardians the right to request student data specific to their children's educational records. Section 49-1-704 requires an LEA to provide parents or guardians with a copy of their children's educational records upon request.
Section 49-1-704 requires the department to develop a model student records policy that requires an LEA to notify parents and guardians annually of their right to request student information, to ensure security when providing student data to them, to ensure that student data is provided only to authorized individuals, to set the timeframe for record requests, and to consider a plan to let parents and guardians view online, download and transmit data specific to their children's educational records.
Public Chapter 686 of 2022 deleted subdivision (d)(2) of section 49-1-704. Before that deletion, subdivision (d)(2) required an LEA to adopt the department's model student records policy or develop its own, and to submit any policy other than the model policy to the department for approval.
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