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FERPA and Public Figures

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and its application to public figures in higher education, including the disclosure of education records and the balance between student privacy and public interest.

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How have FERPA rules been used historically to shield or release college records of public figures?

is a privacy statute that bars schools receiving federal funds from disclosing “education records” without consent, a rule colleges have both invoked to protect—and been accused of weaponizing to conc...