FERPA redaction software for student records.

What FERPA protects

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects personally identifiable information in education records. That includes more than names and ID numbers: family and guardian names, grades, accommodations, disciplinary history and financial aid or lunch status can all identify a student.

DocArmor's Educational Records (FERPA) template covers each of those categories, including the ones that look like routine fields, such as 504 plans and free-lunch status.

Answering a parent's request

A parent may see only the information about their own child (34 CFR 99.12(a)), so other students' details come out wherever they can be separated without losing the record's meaning. Pair the template with a plain-English instruction such as “every student except Jordan Ellis”, and DocArmor redacts every other student on a class roster or incident report.

Reviewed before release

Every finding is reviewed by a person before export. Redacted content is removed and checked on every page, metadata, attachments and form values are stripped, and documents are deleted when you finish, or kept for later only until the time you choose.

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