2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:334 — Status of information; rights of student; confidentiality; limitations on information recipient

§334.  Status of information; rights of student; confidentiality; limitations on information recipient

A.  All information collected, maintained, managed, requested, or received as a result of this Subpart shall be confidential and shall not be a public record nor releasable in any form, except as provided in this Subpart.

B.  Recipient institutions may not forward, release, or share in any fashion with any other agency, institution, person or entity items or combined data base information that contains any personally-identifiable information received by them pursuant to this Subpart.  Recipient institutions may use information identifying or attributable to a particular student only for internal institutional planning or to share information or opportunities directly with the student.  Recipient institutions may develop statistical information which contains no personally-identifying information, and such information shall not be confidential, as required in this Section, and may be released.  

C.(1)  Each student who voluntarily submits information to the data base shall be permitted to receive one copy of his information from the data base at no cost to him.  

(2)(a)  Each student shall be permitted to notify the state department of any changes in the information concerning himself and such changes shall be made in the data base.  

(b)  Each student and the parent or guardian of any student under the age of eighteen shall be permitted to notify the state department to delete from the data base the student's information and such deletion shall be made.

(3)  Each student from whom information is requested and received and the parent or guardian of such a student under the age of eighteen shall be notified of the provisions of this Subpart, particularly the provisions of this Section.  

Acts 1991, No. 31, §1.