Section 375.40  Maintenance

a)         The provisions within the Act and this Part requiring records to be separated into permanent and temporary categories shall apply only to records of students who are enrolled in the school on or after the effective date of this Part.  Records of students who have graduated or permanently withdrawn prior to the effective date of this Part are not subject to these classifications except:

1)         In compliance with the request of a parent or eligible student that such categorization occur; and

2)         The records custodian shall ensure that information characterized by the Act and this Part as "temporary" shall not be disclosed except as provided by Section 5 of the Act or by court order [105 ILCS 10/4(f)].

b)         Student records shall be reviewed every four years or upon a student's change in attendance centers, whichever occurs first, to verify entries and to eliminate or correct all out-of-date, misleading, inaccurate, unnecessary or irrelevant information pursuant to Section 375.10 of this Part.

c)         Upon graduation, transfer or permanent withdrawal of a student from a school, the school shall notify the parents and the student of the destruction schedule for the student permanent record and the student temporary record and of the right to request a copy of such records at any time prior to their destruction.  Notification shall consist of the following:  date of notification, name of parent, name of records custodian, name of student, and the scheduled destruction date of temporary and permanent records.  Biometric information collected pursuant to the district's policy, if any, shall not be subject to the retention requirements applicable to the remainder of students' temporary records under Section 4(f) of the Act, and its destruction shall not be subject to authorization by the appropriate Local Records Commission under Section 7 of the Local Records Act [50 ILCS 205/7].  Instead, the destruction of students' biometric information shall conform to the requirements of Section 10-20.40 or 34-34.18 of the School Code, as applicable.

d)         Upon graduation or permanent withdrawal of a handicapped student, as defined in Article 14 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/Art. 14] and 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226:  Subpart A (Special Education), psychological evaluations, special education files and other information contained in the student temporary record which may be of continued assistance to the student may, after five years, be transferred to the custody of the parent or to the student if the student has succeeded to the rights of the parents.  The school shall explain to the student and the parent the future usefulness of these records.  

e)         If a certified copy of an order of protection has been filed with a school district, then the district shall notify its school employees that the student records or information in those records of a protected child identified in the order shall not be released to the person against whom the order was issued (see Section 222(f) of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 [750 ILCS 60/222(f)]).

f)          Any report required by Section 8.6 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act that has been filed in a student's temporary record shall be removed from the student's record and returned to the Department of Children and Family Services upon written request made by the Department pursuant to Section 8.6 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.  If a school that receives such a request from the Department has transferred the report to another school as part of the transfer of the student's records, the sending school shall forward a copy of the Department's request to the receiving school, which shall comply with this subsection (f).

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 7143, effective April 17, 2008)