Law / United States / 
Utah
Student Data Protection: local education agency policies, student data manager, data governance plan and metadata dictionary
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance, Disclosure
What it requires
- If you are a school district, charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, adopt policies to protect student data in accordance with the Student Data Protection part and state board rule (Utah Code 53E-9-303(1)).
- Designate a student data manager, and where possible designate your records officer (Utah Code 53E-9-303(2)).
- Create and maintain a data governance plan and a metadata dictionary, which the part defines as a plan published annually on your website and a dictionary displayed there without disclosing personally identifiable student data (Utah Code 53E-9-303(3); 53E-9-301(6)(g) and (11)(c)).
- Establish an external research review process for a request for data for external research or evaluation (Utah Code 53E-9-303(4)).
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What this law does
A local education agency must adopt policies to protect student data in accordance with the Student Data Protection part and state board rule. A local education agency must designate a student data manager and, if possible, must designate its records officer. A local education agency must create and maintain a data governance plan and a metadata dictionary.
A local education agency must establish an external research review process for a request for data for the purpose of external research or evaluation. A data governance plan, as the part defines it, is published annually and available on the education entity's website. A metadata dictionary, as the part defines it, is displayed on the education entity's website without disclosing personally identifiable student data. A local education agency is a school district, a charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
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