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160.700 Definitions related to KRS 160.700 to 160.730.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Directory information" means the student's name, address, telephone listing,
date and place of birth, participation in school recognized sports and activities,
height and weight of members of athletic teams, dates of attendance, awards
received, major field of study, and the most recent previous educational agency
or institution attended by the student, contained in education records in the
custody of the public schools;
(2) "Educational institution" means any public school providing an elementary and
secondary education, including vocational;
(3) "Education record" means data and information directly relating to a student
that is collected or maintained by educational institutions or by a person acting
for an institution including academic records and portfolios; achievement tests;
aptitude scores; teacher and counselor evaluations; health and personal data;
behavioral and psychological evaluations; and directory data recorded in any
medium including handwriting, magnetic tapes, film, video, microfiche,
computer-generated and stored data, or data otherwise maintained and used
by the educational institution or a person acting for an institution. "Education
record" shall not include:
(a) Records of instructional, supervisory, and assisting administrative
personnel which are in the sole possession of the maker and are not
accessible or revealed to any other person except a substitute for any of
those persons;
(b) Records maintained by a law enforcement unit of the educational
institution that were created by that law enforcement unit for the purpose
of law enforcement;
(c) In the case of persons who are employed by an educational agency or
institution but who are not in attendance at that agency or institution,
records made and maintained in the normal course of business which
relate exclusively to that person in the person's capacity as an employee
and are not available for use for any other purpose; or
(d) Records on a student who is eighteen (18) years of age or older, which
are made, used, or maintained by a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist,
or other recognized professional or paraprofessional for treatment of the
student, and are not available to anyone other than persons providing this
treatment, except a physician or other appropriate professional of the
student's choice.
(4) "Eligible student" means a student, or a former student, who has reached the
age of eighteen (18) or is pursuing an education beyond high school and
therefore the permission or consent required of, and the rights accorded to the
parents of the student shall thereafter be required of, and accorded to the
student;
(5) "School official" means personnel employed in instructive and administrative
positions with a school board or educational institution. Parents and other
noneducational persons who are elected or appointed to school-based decision
making councils or committees thereof, or other voluntary boards or
committees shall not be considered school officials.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994.
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