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Student Records and Privacy

Did You Know?

• All educational records, including disciplinary records, are governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

• Law enforcement records are NOT subject to FERPA, because law enforcement records are not student education records.

• There are cases when your written consent is NOT required for Baylor University to disclose information. To view these exceptions, which allow for the disclosure of information without your written consent, click this link: Cases When Prior Consent Is Not Required

Disciplinary records maintained by the Judicial Affairs office are strictly confidential and all disclosures are governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). A student has the right to make a request to inspect and review his or her discipinary file at any time. Furthermore, a student may request for his or her disciplinary information to be released to a thiry party.

Disciplinary files are retained for a period of seven years and may be kept longer due to special circumstances such as, suspension or expulsion or as deemed necessary by the Associate Dean for Judicial Affairs. Students may also submit a petition to have their disciplinary file expunged during their last semester of enrollment. This is strictly a courtesy provided by Baylor University and is not a requirement of law. In other words, this is not a right afforded by FERPA. Baylor University has no obligation to expunge a student's disciplinary record. Records that involve an incident or charge that the University is federally mandated under the Clery Act to report may not be expunged early.

If you would like to make a request to review your record, or have information from your file released, or file a petition to expunge, you may access the appropriate forms below:

Request to Review Disciplinary Record

Consent to Disclose Disciplinary Records

Petition to Have Disciplinary Record Expunged