§ 22-2-111 — Commissioner of education - office - records - confidential nature

Colorado § 22-2-111

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 22: Education
• Art.: Department - Commissioner

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(1) The commissioner shall have an office at the seat of the government where he
shall keep an official seal and all books and papers pertaining to the business
affairs of his office. He shall be entitled to reimbursements for necessary travel and
subsistence expenses, incurred either within or without the state, in accordance
with regulations promulgated by the state controller.

(2) Copies of all papers, reports, and documents filed in his office, and his
official acts, may be certified by him under seal, and when so certified shall be
evidence of his official acts equally and in a like manner as the original paper,
report, or document or testimony under oath.

(3) (a) Except when requested by the governor or a committee of the general
assembly or pursuant to compliance with section 22-32-109.8 or 22-2-119, all
papers filed in the department of education that contain personal information about
applicants for employment, employees, or holders of educator licenses or
authorizations or about pupils' test scores are classified as confidential in nature;
however, each educator has the right to inspect and to have copies made at the
educator's expense of all information pertaining to the educator on file in the
department of education. The educator may challenge any such record by formal
letter or other evidence, which shall be added to the state records. The state board
may authorize any material to be added to or removed from an educator's official
records in its custody. It is unlawful for any officer, employee, or other person to
divulge, or to make known in any way, any such personal information without the
written consent of said applicant, employee, educator, or pupil; but the information
may be divulged or made known in the normal and proper course of administration
of programs relating thereto without such written consent. Nothing in this
subsection (3) shall be construed in a manner to prohibit the publication of
statistics relative to the aforementioned information when so classified as to
prevent the identification of educators or pupils involved in said statistics.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection (3), on
or before July 1, 2004, and on or before July 1 each year thereafter, the department
shall provide to the department of higher education a list of the persons initially
licensed as educators during the preceding twelve months and, for each such
person who completed an approved program of preparation provided by a Colorado
institution of higher education, the name of the institution that provided the
approved program of preparation, and a list of the persons who have held an
educator license for two years as of the reporting date.

Legislative History

Source: L. 64: R&RE, p. 534, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 123-1-12. L. 2004: (3) amended, p. 382, � 2, effective April 8; (3) amended, p. 1284, � 14, effective May 28. L. 2008: (3)(a) amended, p. 1665, � 5, effective May 29.