Medley v. BOARD OF EDUC., OF SHELBY COUNTY

OPINION

MINTON, Judge.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) 1 and the Kentucky Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“KFERPA”) 2 permit education records otherwise shielded from open records 3 disclosure to be made available to teachers with a legitimate educational interest in them. Debbie Medley is a classroom teacher who made an open records request to view videotape recordings of her own classroom. Her request was denied, assumedly on the basis that Medley did not have a legitimate educational interest in viewing the videotapes. On appeal, we hold there was not…