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From: "Tom Mueller" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V05 #264
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:42:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <218.84711cb.3049206d@aol.com>


I tried to get access to my deceased Father's school records (public HS in
the midwest).
I was told--confidentially by someone in the school office--the only to get
them would be to request them *as* my father.
I opted not to do so.

Tom Mueller

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Subject: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V05 #264


Kathy Lenerz wrote:

> It was the Family Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. It gives you access
> to your own records and prohibits access to the records of others.

The act covers records of any school that has accepted any type of federal
grant or assistance, so applies to most public and private school student
records. Parents can access the records while the student is a minor, but
after that
only the student can see them. To my knowledge, there is no provision for
access after the death of the individual they pertain to..

Donn Devine, CG, CGI
Wilmington DE

CG, Certified Genealogist, CGI, and Certified Genealogical Instructor are
service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under
license
by board certificants after periodic evaluation, and the board name is
registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.


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