Who can provide consent to share personally identifiable information?
The educational decision-maker. If the divorced or separated parents have joint legal custody, then either one of them can provide consent. Remember, any natural parent regardless of whether they are educational decision maker, have the right to information and educational records about their child. Q: How do you handle confidentiality when one of the two educational decision-makers is in transitional housing with the FS child and location of residence cannot be shared with the other educational decision-maker? A: If the two parents are educational decision-makers then it would be assumed there is no court order barring the parent from seeing the child – and that he or she would know where the child was living. If one parent asks that we not share the address with the other parent we can try to abide by that, but if the parent asks to access the child’s educational file, the address will be in the file and we would not be able to protect it.
