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Message: [QUOTE="arbitragegls, post: 372371, member: 302"] This is a very long response with direction provided by my source. This is ongoing, but it is a winding road to #4 below which basically says...transcripts can be released but not with name associated with it...FERBA is most often followed but sometimes not in North Carolina...I highly doubt that names are going to be attached...but possible the athletic group as a whole may be given without individual names identifying...this is NOT going away nor is it going to be decided quickly in court: [FONT=Georgia]Tough question...and to be sure there is numerous investigations taking place at UNC..and I may add other schools also. [B]According to source[/B], names attached to transcripts have not been released...but court rulings are ongoing. Let's look at the following but #4 at bottom is what prevents names associated with transcripts from happening.[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]1. [url]http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/05/2392751/experts-say-ncaa-should-return.html[/url][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]and this which indicates that media companies have gone to court to get more information:[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]2. [url]http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/18/2206929/at-unc-athletes-records-are-sometimes.html#storylink=misearch[/url][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]and finally the following on FERPA...note that it may be possible to gain non identifiable transcripts but having those transcripts be associated with a group...say football players without names attached...is still prohibited:[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]3. [url]http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/slb/slbwin01/article2.pdf[/url] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:(AND SO FAR HAVE NOT GOTTEN)[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]4. Statutory exceptions to the public records law[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]North Carolina[/FONT][FONT=Georgia] statutes exempt several types of[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]school records from the definition of public records.[/FONT] [B][FONT=Georgia]Students’ official records. Under G.S. 115C-402,[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]the “official record” of a student is not a public record[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]and therefore is not subject to a right of inspection by[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]members of the general public. The statute provides[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]that the official record of each student must include the[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]student’s name, address, birth date, and grading and[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Georgia]promotion data.[/FONT][/B] [FONT=Georgia]111 [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]This minimal information may be[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]supplemented by “such other factual information as[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]may be deemed appropriate by the local board of education [for inclusion in the official record.]” Because the[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]statute does not suggest what kinds of additional information are anticipated, the documents that are included[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]in a student’s “official record” may vary among school[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]districts. Furthermore, the statute does not address[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]whether a school board must adopt policies in advance[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]defining what is included in the official record, or[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]whether a board may decide to include particular materials in the official record after receiving a request to see[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]the document in question.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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