Photos and videographic images, part 2

Do you remember the media center director from last month's column? He was the person who asked me, during a Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act workshop, if his college could include photographs and videos of students as directory information. He asked the question since his office had been obtaining signed consents from students before the media center took their pictures. Of course, the advantage to him was that, if photos/videos could be part of the college's directory information, his office would not have to obtain the students’ written consents before their pictures were taken. The office would only have to know which of the students had exercised their FERPA right of non‐disclosure. Thus, a sizable bureaucratic burden would disappear. That, in fact, is what happened, and the media center director became a happy camper.