Thread by @hardsci

I wish I was more surprised. There is a loophole in FERPA that allows universities to access students' private therapy records for the purpose of defending themselves in court. There was a notorious case at my university involving this with a rape survivor oregonlive.com/education/2015…

https://twitter.com/devon_cantwell/status/1491105270449467392

Oregon banned it after that incident came out. But AFAIK it is still permitted at a federal level oregonlive.com/education/2015…

Thanks to activists, Oregon's confidentiality protections for students who talk to campus counselors about domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking are now some of the strongest. They need to be replicated (or made even stronger) nationwide so they protect everyone

UPDATE: Holy cow, now I really *am* surprised. I did not catch that "private" meant private practice (unaffiliated with Harvard). Not sure if this falls under the FERPA loophole I talked about or if it's something else

https://twitter.com/nantarsya/status/1491187401099988995

Also relevant

https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1491239713314799620

(The Dear Colleague is about a FERPA provision allowing access to treatment records without consent when a university is sued. But there are other provisions allowing access, and Harvard may have done it under one of them. So this is relevant, but doesn’t appear to seal it)