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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Guide for Emergency Managers and Law Enforcement

Guidance
Emergency Planning

Department of Justice

Summary

This guidance provides law enforcement and Emergency managers with information on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and discusses the types of information that schools can provide law enforcement agencies. It also provides exceptions to FERPA’s general consent rule that permits the nonconsensual disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.  

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