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What Austin ISD said led to student information being released to non-guardians

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Dissent

Johann Castro reports:

Some Austin ISD students mistakenly had their records released to people who weren’t their parents or legal guardians.

According to a report from KVUE’s media partners at the Austin American-Statesman, documents revealed that a special education database vendor mistakenly released the private information for about 160 Austin students in December.

The report highlighted a Dec. 16 system update that handles special education reporting, which triggered a coding error. The glitch “altered the notification settings, which sent notifications or signature requests to non-guardian contacts listed in EasyIEP,” according to the report sent to the Texas Education Association (TEA).

Read more at KVUE.

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