Author name: Jessica Arciniega, Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, & Amelia Vance

Strengthening Transparency & Confidence in FERPA Enforcement June 2024 Jessica Arciniega, Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, Amelia Vance, and Casey Waughn   CC BY-NC 4.0 There is a pervasive myth among stakeholders concerned about student privacy that FERPA is not enforced––that it is toothless. This misconception stems from a lack of public transparency throughout the whole FERPA enforcement process at the Department of Education (USED). The public-facing parts of USED’s FERPA enforcement portray FERPA enforcement as weak, specifically due to the low number of punitive enforcement decisions and past systematic problems detailed in a 2018 USED Office of Inspector General (OIG) […]