Suggests that to protect the privacy of participants in educational research, rules should be established promptly. The author recommends an effort by the American Educational Research Association or Phi Delta Kappa. (Author)

Existing policies and procedures concerning access to student records were studied at 18 of the state's community colleges, Results indicate that most institutions were generally agreed about the type of material classified as confidential, personnel having access to it, and need for common policy or guidelines. (JO)

Reviews the background of the Forsham v Harris case and discusses the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that research records and data of federally funded grantees are not considered federal agency records subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. (Author/GC)

The Library Association of Australia's submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs on the Freedom of Information Bill 1978 and the Archives Bill 1979 is presented. Aspects of the Bill which affect access to information are discussed. (RAO)

Reports findings from a small-scale survey of organizational practices to limit disclosure of confidential information prior to publishing public use microdata files and illustrates how rules for preserving confidentiality were applied in practice. Discusses Internet data security, statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) methods, and improving…

The purpose of this proposed bill from the Judiciary Committee to the second session of the hundredth Congress is to preserve personal privacy with respect to the rental, purchase, or delivery of videotapes or similar audiovisual materials. The Video Privacy Protection Act prohibits videotape service providers from disclosing personally…

Maine Superior Court Civil Action Docket No. 3572, Androscoggin County, May 8, 1968.

Speaking on the operating policies and procedures of computer data bases containing information on students, the author divides his remarks into three parts: content decisions, data base security, and user access. He offers nine recommended practices that should increase the data base's usefulness to the user community: (1) the cost of developing…

The North Carolina Teacher Tenure Act of 1972 requires that regulations for handling teacher records be adopted. This pamphlet contains regulations that, if adopted by school boards, will implement the statutory requirements of the tenure act. The proposed regulations contain several sections, each followed by a comment explaining or clarifying…

In this speech, the author outlines recent social and judicial trends affecting the confidentiality of records and suggests methods for improving student records handling. (JF)

The school counselors of one state were surveyed about the methods they employed in releasing pupil personnel information to requesting sources. Results indicated that while the methods used to release such data varied by type of information and requesting agency, complete confidentiality was rarely, if ever, extended to school-age clients.…

Discusses the use of college records for noneducational purposes. (Author)