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I did a little research, Martin. From my understanding, FERPA does two things. First, it allows parents to request that "directory" information (name, address, phone number) not be disclosed. For example, a parent can choose that their child not be listed in a student directory. This is the issue that you are running up against. More interesting to me, at least from a social sense, is that FERPA actually weakens privacy by requiring that any student information to be made available to "appropriate agencies" regardless of the consent of the parent. I think this is a reaction to the wave of school violence, making student records available to law enforcement agencies. In any event, FERPA is primarily a school issue, and probably doesn't impinge as much on anybody else. At the same time, the concept of information privacy is a vast one, and the idea of requiring user security for data access on a row and column basis makes unfettered ODBC access even scarier. But that's just me on another one of my ODBC bashing jaunts <grin>. Joe > From: Booth Martin > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I am anticipating that the business rules I will be handed will include: > warn a user that the information for this individual is restricted and can > not be furnished outside of the organization; print a warning on > amy report > including a FERPA individual, and more besides. > > It really is becoming a difficult issue everywhere in the organization. > More of you folks must be getting this issue raised in your organizations, > aren't you?
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