Carroll County Public Schools

NOTIFICATION OF DESTRUCTION OF 

SPECIAL EDUCATION and Section 504 STUDENT RECORDS

Notice is hereby given that Carroll County Public Schools intends to destroy the Special Education and Section 504 records of all students who exited from an IEP or a 504 plan prior to and during the 2013-2014 school year. 

In accordance with federal and state laws, Carroll County Public Schools is required to inform parents when personally identifiable information collected, maintained, or used to provide services under the IDEA or Section 504 is no longer needed to provide educational services and supports to the child.  Carroll County Public Schools may maintain a permanent record, without time limitation, of a student’s name, address and phone number, his/her grades, attendance record, classes attended, grade level completed, and year completed.

If you wish to maintain your special education or 504 record, please contact your last school of attendance before August 1, 2020 to claim the record before it is destroyed.  Please note that certain records may be needed for social security benefits or other purposes.  You must be the parent or legal guardian of the student or the student themselves to obtain the record and proper identification will be required.  If the student is 18 year of age or older, there needs to be documentation that the student releases the information to his or her parents. 

If no student, parent or guardian responds to this public notice, the school district will assume consent to destroy the entire special education or 504 record specific to the student.  Special education and 504 records not claimed by August 1, 2020 will be destroyed in accordance with state and federal regulations.  If you have additional questions, you can contact the Carroll County Public Schools –for questions related to IEP records contact 410-751-3033; for questions related to 504 records contact 410-386-1822.

The Carroll County Public School System provides Special Education programs and services to all children with disabilities (from birth to their twenty-first birthday) who reside in Carroll County.  Special Education services include diagnostic, instructional, and related services.  Programs and services are provided on a continuum ranging from consultation with regular education teachers, up through full time special education programming.  This continuum of programs and services is designed to ensure that appropriate programs are available to all children with disabilities and that the least restrictive environment for each child is determined based upon the child's unique needs. For information about the special education programs and services available in Carroll County Public Schools,  please contact any of the staff listed below.