Student and Family Privacy Protection Act
Summary: The Student and Family Privacy Protection Act would require school districts to make it easier for families to exercise their right to prevent the release of high school students’ names, addresses and phone numbers to military recruiters and institutions of higher education.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This Act shall be called the “Student and Family Privacy Protection Act.”
SECTION 2. STUDENT AND FAMILY PRIVACY PROTECTION
After section XXX, the following new section XXX shall be inserted:
(A) ADOPTION OF PRIVACY PROCEDURES—Each school district shall adopt procedures making it simple and convenient for high school students, or their parents or guardians, to exercise the right under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (20 U.S.C. 7908) to prevent the disclosure of a student’s name, address and telephone number to military recruiters or institutions of higher education without prior written parental consent.
(B) CONTENT OF PRIVACY PROCEDURES—Each school district’s student privacy procedures shall include requirements that:
1. Every high school shall inform students, and their parents and guardians, of their right under the federal No Child Left Behind Act to prevent the disclosure of a student’s name, address and telephone number to military recruiters or institutions of higher education without prior written parental consent.
2. Every high school shall send home with students a form in simple, clear language that enables students, parents and guardians to exercise that right to nondisclosure.
3. Every high school that requires parents or guardians to provide current emergency information shall include in the emergency information form a clearly identified check box that allows students, parents and guardians to exercise that right to nondisclosure.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.