Privacy and Your Information
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- Protecting Your Privacy
- Your Information On Campus
- Allowing People Off-Campus Access to Your Information
- Mandatory Reporting
- Transferring to a New School
Protecting Your Privacy
Your information is confidential and covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Everett Community College takes your privacy seriously. Visit Enrollment Services' page Confidentiality/FERPA for more information.
Your Information On Campus
The Center for Disability Services (CDS) may provide some information regarding your classroom accommodations to specific departments or individuals on campus if they have a legitimate need for that information as a way to support your academic success. Examples include TRiO Student Support Services, Student Housing (for housing-specific accommodations only), WorkSource, Student Services, Enrollment Services, Counseling, Advising and Career Center, Running Start, and faculty members. Information shared with these departments and individuals is on an as-needed and limited basis.
Your medical or psychological diagnoses and evaluations and any documentation you provide is confidential and will never be shared by CDS with others on campus without your explicit consent.
Allowing People Off-Campus Access to Your Information
If you would like to allow access to your file and information at the Center for Disability Services, you must sign an information release with our office.
You may wish to include parents, a spouse or partner, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation or Department of Services for the Blind counselors, diagnosticians, physicians or therapists. CDS does not contact these individuals; this permission permits us to respond to them if they call CDS. You may add or remove names on your contact list at any time.
Mandatory Reporting
CDS staff are mandatory reporters. If a CDS staff member has a reasonable belief that a situation has occurred, we are required by law to report that belief. Situations we are required to report include, but are not limited to suspected: abuse, abandonment, suicidal behavior, threatened harm to self or another, neglect of a child or vulnerable adult, or financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Transferring to a New School
You can have the accommodation information and documentation that the CDS has on file for you sent to your new school by requesting your CDS Records.
For more information on the regulations that guide our office, please visit Policy, Laws & Legal Mandates.