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This bill authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a data request fee policy for researchers seeking access to individually identifiable or student data. The policy must be reviewed and approved by the Board of Governors, periodically revised, publicly available on the chancellor's website, and compliant with federal and state privacy laws like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Any fees charged would aim to recover costs associated with data compilation, extraction, or programming. Importantly, the bill prohibits charging fees to state agencies (with some exceptions), undergraduate or graduate students seeking data for their individual studies, or community college faculty members conducting individual research. The proposed policy is designed to balance the need for data access with cost recovery and privacy protections, providing a structured approach for researchers to obtain community college data while ensuring that students and faculty are not financially burdened in their academic pursuits.

Budget and Finance, Education

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