July 12, 2002
Court Says Colleges Can't Release Files From Student Judicial Proceedings
Federal privacy laws prohibit colleges from releasing specific information about confidential campus disciplinary hearings to reporters who request such details under state open-records laws, a federal appeals court ruled late last month.
In a lawsuit involving The Chronicle of Higher Education, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unanimously upheld a district-court ruling that disciplinary files qualify as "education records" under the Family Educational Rights
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