When can parents get school records?
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All children need to feel safe and be safe at school. This is especially true for children who have suffered from the effects of domestic violence.
Restricting an abusive parent’s access to school records can keep the parent from harming a child's education. Restricted access can keep an abusive parent from finding out:
- where the child and the non-abusive parent live, and
- where the non-abusive parent works.
Most of the time, both parents can see their child’s records from a public elementary, middle, or high school, unless there is a court order that:
- specifically says otherwise,
- denies them visitation or parenting time,
- only allows supervised visitation because of a threat of safety to children, or
- denies them legal custody because of a threat of safety to children.
To make sure the other parent cannot see their child’s records, you have to already have one of the court orders above or get one of these court orders.
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