Does a student’s parent have the right to look at that student’s college records?
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a student at a postsecondary institution has the right to inspect his or her education records, seek an amendment to those records, and authorize the release of the records to a third party. FERPA grants these rights to the college or university student regardless of the student’s age. Accordingly, it is typically the student—and not the parent—who holds rights under FERPA to records maintained by the institution. The law does allow, however, a college or university to enact a policy that would afford many parents access to records concerning their college student son or daughter. Such a policy (which is in effect at all of the colleges within Maricopa) allows the institution to disclose—without the student’s prior permission—personally identifiable information out of education records to a parent who has established the student’s status as a dependent under the Internal Revenue Code.
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