Tag Archives: FERPA

FERPA Disclosures in Response to COVID-19

By Lynn Sessions and Benjamin Wells on March 16, 2020 Posted in Education

The United States Department of Education (ED) Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO), on March 13, 2020, issued Frequently Asked Questions related to the serious novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that the world is now grappling with. This FAQ document mirrors in large part the same line of advice found in ED’s prior Joint Guidance with Health … Continue Reading

Departments of Education and HHS Release Joint Guidance on the Relationship Between FERPA and HIPAA

By Benjamin Wells and BakerHostetler on January 31, 2020 Posted in HIPAA/HITECH

At the end of 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy Office (ED) issued an update to their joint guidance on the relationship between the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability … Continue Reading

Clearly Defined HIPAA and FERPA Policies May Help Covered Entities in Defending a Claim for Unemployment Compensation

By Paulette Thomas on February 19, 2019 Posted in HIPAA/HITECH, Privacy Litigation

Recently, in Dantry v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. 1665 C.D. 2017 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2019), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which had affirmed the Unemployment Compensation Referee’s decision that Jami M. Dantry (Dantry) was ineligible for unemployment compensation benefits because Dantry’ s conduct … Continue Reading

Colleges and Universities Are Prime Cyberattack Targets: What’s Behind the Threat?

By Eric A. Packel on October 29, 2015 Posted in Cybersecurity, Incident Response

When it comes to cyberattack targets, many think of retailers and associated credit card transactions or customer information, or perhaps healthcare providers with their ever-increasing storage and transmission of electronic information related to patients. But colleges and universities are increasingly under siege from hackers. In fact, the education sector, according to recent reports, comes in … Continue Reading

Ill Conceived California Privacy Bill Threatens Viability Of Commercial Educational Online Services

By Alan L. Friel on April 11, 2014 Posted in Cybersecurity

SB 1177, the Student Online Privacy Protection Act was recently introduced in the California legislature. This is a bad bill for the private educational industry, and ultimately for parents and students. It would drastically expand the privacy protections of the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and state equivalents, which impose reasonable limits on … Continue Reading