Privacy & Security


  • Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility and each of us has a role to play. It only takes a single infected computer to potentially infect thousands and perhaps millions of others. Everyone should take basic cybersecurity measures that can improve both individual and our collective safety online. Some steps you can take to ensure you and your family are safe online include:

    • Don’t open emails or attachments that look suspicious
    • Set strong passwords, and don’t share them with anyone
    • Keep your operating system, browser, and other critical software optimized by checking for and installing updates
    • Limit the amount of personal information you post online, and use privacy settings to avoid sharing information widel 

    https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2013/10/18/cybersecurity-shared-responsibility


  • The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records. When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary institution at any age, the rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student (“eligible student”). The FERPA statute is found at 20 U.S.C. § 1232g and the FERPA regulations are found at 34 CFR Part 99.

    https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/faq/what-ferpa#:~:text=The%20Family%20Educational%20Rights%20and,identifiable%20information%20from%20the%20education