The Chronicle: New Law in Virginia Will Require Colleges to Report Applicants’ Personal Data to Police
College officials are nervous about a Virginia law that requires all colleges and universities in the state to submit personal information about their applicants to the state police to be checked against registries of sex offenders.
The new statute specifies accepted students, rather than enrolled students, because the main federal student-privacy law, which would bar the release of such personal data, kicks in once students matriculate.
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