Disclosures 18: How to refuse an internal request

Abstract

Last month, I sort of left you hanging. I was discussing internal disclosures of education records. And, at the end of the column, I mentioned a situation where a security director asked the dean of students for access to the judicial hearings files under the control of that dean. When asked why he needed those records, he simply said his responsibility to the college required that he be given unlimited access to those records to secure the campus from any threats. That last part was not included in last month's column.