The Family Educational
Rights And Privacy Act

• Department of Education adopted implementing regulations in 1988

• 34 C.F.R. Part 99

Department of Education waited (from 1974) until 1988 to implement!

C.F.R. stands for the Code of Federal Regulations--containing regulatory laws governing practice and procedure.

The regulations have been amended several times, most recently by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, and the "Campus Security Act."