{"id":15467,"date":"2016-03-25T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=15467"},"modified":"2016-03-25T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:22:20","slug":"are-emails-under-ferpa-idea-or-public-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-emails-under-ferpa-idea-or-public-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Records: ARE EMAILS UNDER FERPA\/IDEA OR PUBLIC RECORDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Educational%20Records%3A%20ARE%20EMAILS%20UNDER%20FERPA%2FIDEA%20OR%20PUBLIC%20RECORDS%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Jessica:\u00a0 Parents requested all student records and emails pertaining to their child with an IEP. The school responded that they spoke with their lawyer who said the emails don&#8217;t fall under FERPA or IDEA student records, but could be received under a public records request. The problem with this designation is the school is under no obligation to waive the fee for copying and have a proposed bill amounting to nearly $1\/page for all the &#8220;actual costs&#8221; of copying the over 1,700 emails. Short of hiring an attorney, what protections do the parents have in getting access to the communication concerning their child? The intent of IDEA was to safeguard parent rights and it seems classifying the exact same request under a different law effectively prevents these protections. My understanding is this topic isn&#8217;t firmly established, and it was a decision in CA that other schools have based this move off of. How can parents get around this cost obstacle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica:\u00a0 Parents requested all student records and emails pertaining to their child with an IEP. The school responded that they spoke with their lawyer who said the emails don&#8217;t fall <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-emails-under-ferpa-idea-or-public-records\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-15467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-e"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15472,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467\/revisions\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}