Public School Student Records Access and Confidentiality
Nebraska Student Records Law
Students · Government records
Nebraska's student records law gives public school students and parents the right to inspect, review, and copy school records and bars disclosure to others without written consent, except to auditors, education authorities, and as FERPA allows. Disciplinary material must be kept separate and destroyed after three years of continuous absence.
- Where
- Nebraska
- Citation
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-2,104; 79-539
- Status
- In force
- Enforced by
- No specific enforcement provision (State Board of Education rules on data sharing)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- No penalty provision stated.
- Applies to
- Nebraska public schools and school boards (79-2,104, 79-539)
What a privacy notice must say
- Each school board must adopt and publish an official policy on personnel files and student records.Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-539
Rights it gives people
- Students and parents or guardians may inspect, review, and obtain copies of the student's school records; no fee may be charged to search for or retrieve them.Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-2,104(1)-(2)
Practices it requires
- Do not divulge student records to unauthorized persons without written consent of a parent, guardian, or adult student, except for audit and evaluation access or disclosures FERPA permits.Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-2,104(1), (3)
- Keep academic and disciplinary records separate and destroy disciplinary material after three years of continuous absence.Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-2,104(1)
Sources
- Official text
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-2,104 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 79-539 (Nebraska Legislature)
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: effective_date null: originally Laws 1973, LB 370; last amended by Laws 2013, LB262; dates not confirmed. Applies to public schools (government), included for student-privacy completeness.
Research reference, not legal advice.