Section 76232 Of Article 4. Rights Of Students From California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 47. >> Chapter 1.5. >> Article 4.
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. (a) Any student may file a written request with the chief
administrative officer of a community college district to correct or
remove information recorded in his or her student records which the
student alleges to be: (1) inaccurate; (2) an unsubstantiated
personal conclusion or inference; (3) a conclusion or inference
outside of the observer's area of competence; or (4) not based on the
personal observation of a named person with the time and place of
the observation noted.
(b) Within 30 days of receipt of the request, the chief
administrative officer, or his or her designee, shall meet with the
student and the employee who recorded the information in question, if
any, if the employee is presently employed by the community college
district. The chief administrative officer or his or her designee
shall then sustain or deny the allegations.
If the chief administrative officer, or his or her designee,
sustains any or all of the allegations, he or she shall order the
correction or removal and destruction of the information.
If the chief administrative officer, or his or her designee,
denies any or all of the allegations and refuses to order the
correction or removal of the information, the student, within 30 days
of the refusal, may appeal the decision in writing to the governing
board of the community college district.
(c) Within 30 days of receipt of an appeal, the governing board
shall, in closed session with the student and the employee who
recorded the information in question, if any, and if that employee is
presently employed by the community college district, determine
whether to sustain or deny the allegations.
If the governing board sustains any or all of the allegations, it
shall order the chief administrative officer, or his or her designee,
to immediately correct or remove and destroy the information.
The decision of the governing board shall be final.
Records of these administrative proceedings shall be maintained in
a confidential manner and shall be destroyed one year after the
decision of the governing board unless the student initiates legal
proceedings relative to the disputed information within the
prescribed period.
(d) If the final decision of the governing board is unfavorable to
the student or if the student accepts an unfavorable decision by the
chief administrative officer, the student shall have the right to
submit a written statement of his or her objections to the
information. This statement shall become a part of the student's
record until the information objected to is corrected or removed.